This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 120 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 120 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables that sets the overall rhythm of certain poems; made up of groupings called "feet" A) Meter. B) Consonance. C) Personification. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 2. Iambic meter A) Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit. B) Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). C) Meter consisting of one accented syllable followed by two unaccented syllables. D) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A verse consisting of iambs, which are one metrical foot of one stressed and one unstressed syllable. 3. A kind of poem that follows a set of rules, such as a limerick, haiku, or sonnet, is ..... A) Traditional poem. B) Free verse. C) Partner poem. D) Spot poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Traditional poem. 4. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of a word A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. The moon winked at me through the clouds as if to say I should venture forward.' What object is being personified in the sentence? A) Clouds. B) Winked. C) Say. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moon. 6. A comparison of two different things, using either "as" or "like" A) Simile. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. This is a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable A) Trochee. B) Beat. C) Iamb. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trochee. 8. Someone who is ..... usually works hard to succeed. A) Memorized. B) Satisfaction. C) Ambitious. D) Shuddered. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambitious. 9. Personification, what is it? A) Giving safa human abilities. B) Giving sebi animal abilities. C) Giving animals sebi's abilities. D) Giving an inanimate object human abilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Giving an inanimate object human abilities. 10. "O, Helios, great sun-god, you gave me this gold for a high occasion" ~ paraphrased from MEDEA A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 11. An allusion is a(n)? A) Magic trick. B) Indirect reference to some idea, figure, etc. C) Symbol. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect reference to some idea, figure, etc. 12. What is a fourteen-line poem about love that ends with a couplet is? A) Sonnet. B) Allegory. C) Parallelism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 13. The beat of a poem, based on syllables A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhythm. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 14. Poetry free from any fixed or repeated patterns? A) Narrative Poem. B) Repetition. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 15. A duck's constant request for grapes is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 16. The juxtaposition of harsh jarring sounds in one or more lines A) Dissonance. B) Assonance. C) Syntax. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissonance. 17. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am not ready to throw it out just yet." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. When the text compares two things using the terms "like" or "as?" A) Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers. B) The wind howls and the rain raps on the roof. C) The song of the sparrow fills my room with happiness. D) Her kindness is like a hug from a rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her kindness is like a hug from a rainbow. 20. All the world is a stage, A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesPoetry Terms Quiz 1Poetry Terms Quiz 2Poetry Terms Quiz 3Poetry Terms Quiz 4Poetry Terms Quiz 5Poetry Terms Quiz 6Poetry Terms Quiz 7Poetry Terms Quiz 8Poetry Terms Quiz 9Poetry Terms Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books