This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 123 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 123 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which figurative language is this an example of:The old man was as blind as a bat. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of word A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 3. A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter; a poem meant to be sung. A) Meter. B) Ode. C) Simile. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ode. 4. A couplet has ..... lines A) 2. B) 4. C) 20. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2. 5. You should preview a poem looking at shape, line length, and stanzas before reading it. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Repetition of the same sounds in words that appear near each other in a poem, often at the end of the line, used to create a musical effect A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 7. She hesitated, listening for sounds of the creature. The forest seemed empty, but she could sense something else out there. Something watching and waiting. What is the mood of the passage? A) Romantic. B) Depressing. C) Joyful. D) Suspenseful. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suspenseful. 8. Poetry that does not have rhyme or rhythm is called A) Free Verse. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 9. Which term means using colors, objects, or people to represent a deeper idea? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Allusion. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 10. What is a rhyme? An example of words that rhyme:bed and red. A) The repetition of similar spelling at the end of a word. B) The repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word. C) The repetition of similar sounds at the start of a word. D) The repetition of different sounds at the end of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of similar sounds at the end of a word. 11. How many different poems are possible in the Poetry Portfolio? A) 13. B) 15. C) 17. D) 19. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 17. 12. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? Little Miss MuffetSat on her tuffet, Eating her curds and whey;Along came a spiderWho sat down beside herand frightened Miss Muffet away. A) BABIES. B) ABCABC. C) AABCCB. D) AABBCC. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AABCCB. 13. Juxtaposition is ..... A) The figurative comparison between two unlike things. B) Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast. C) A position on the football field. D) What readers do when they compare and contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Placing two things side by side, usually to show contrast. 14. A four-line poetic stanza that often possesses some degree of rhyme A) Allusion. B) Synecdoche. C) Epistrophe. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 15. The repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of at least two words in a line of poetry A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 16. Group of lines in a poem, separated by a space A) Inverted syntax. B) Stanza. C) Slant rhyme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 17. A type of writing that uses the way words sound as well as their meaning to express feelings and ideas A) Poetry. B) Prose. C) Drama. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 18. A metaphor that extends over several lines or throughout the poem A) Long metaphor. B) Extended metaphor. C) Big ol' metaphor. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extended metaphor. 19. A set of lines grouped together in a poem A) Verse. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 20. A figure of speech in which a thing-an idea or animal-is given human attributes. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) IMAGERY. C) SIMILE. D) TONE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERSONIFICATION. ← 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