This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 129 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 129 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Can be complete or incomplete; alternative to a sentence A) Paragraph. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Fragment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 2. Words that make a sound is called: A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Tone. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 3. Words arranged in short lines, usually with carefully chosen words that often rhyme A) Poem. B) Poet. C) Poetry. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 4. The way the poet feels about the subject in the poem is called the A) Prose. B) Tone. C) Connotation. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 5. A ..... is a group of lines within a poem, usually set off from others by a blank line A) Stanza. B) Line Break. C) Line. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 6. Comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Extended Metaphor. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extended Metaphor. 7. The repetition of end sounds in a word. A) Foot. B) Stress. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 8. Descriptive words that appeal to the senses A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 9. Does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllablesDoes NOT have a rhymeVery conversational-sounds like someone talking with you A) Free Verse. B) Narrative. C) Lyrical. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 10. A metaphor that directly states that one thing IS another is called a(n) ..... A) Indirect metaphor. B) Direct metaphor. C) Simile. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct metaphor. 11. What is an exaggeration is called? A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. What type of figurative language being used in the following sentence?The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 13. Uncertainty, vagueness A) Ambiguity. B) Candid. C) Deprecate. D) Exegesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambiguity. 14. What is the purpose of using hyperbole in poetry? A) To create a calm and peaceful atmosphere. B) To confuse and mislead the reader. C) To create emphasis and evoke strong emotions. D) To provide factual information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To create emphasis and evoke strong emotions. 15. Two or more words that contain an identical or similar vowel sounds followed by identical consonant sounds A) Verse. B) Rhyme. C) Haiku. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 16. Two consecutive lines in verse with end rhymes A) Quatrain. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 17. An indirect reference to an outside literary work, public figure, event or story is called: A) An Oxymoron. B) An Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An Allusion. 18. Rhyme scheme that repeats with three lines; AAA BBB A) Stanza. B) Triplet. C) Verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Triplet. 19. A figure of speech that compares two unlike objects and uses the words "like" or "as." A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 20. Usually one row of text in the poem that does NOT always end with a period A) Line. B) Speaker. C) Rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. ← 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