This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 136 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 136 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The rhythmic structure of the poem ..... the way it sounds when read aloud. A) Tempo. B) Meter. C) Soliloquy. D) Chorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 2. A rhythmic pattern in poetry that is usually repetitive. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Meter. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 3. The determination of a formal rhyming pattern using letters A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme structure. C) Free verse. D) Rhymed poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 4. Using language that creates a picture in the reader's minds (sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures) is called: A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 5. Giving human qualities to non-human items A) Persona. B) Figurative Language. C) Personification. D) Sensory Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. What figurative language is an obvious exaggerated statement? A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbola. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbola. 7. A reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature often without explicit identification A) Onomatopoeia. B) Juxtaposition. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 8. The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 9. The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. A restatement of an idea in such a way as to retain the meaning while changing the diction and form. Often an amplification of the original phrase/idea for the purpose of clarity. A) Parallelism. B) Paraphrase. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paraphrase. 11. The use of any element of language-a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence-more than once (think of the chorus of a song) A) Consonance. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 12. Which poetry term refers to a group of lines arranged together in a poem? A) Poet. B) Speaker. C) Stanza. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 13. A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas ans usually having a refrain. A) Epic. B) Ballad. C) Personification. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 14. Has the following elements:Paragraphs, setting and characters. A) Poetry. B) Figurative Language. C) Prose. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 15. Use of any element of language more than once, used for musical effects and for emphasis A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Figurative language. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 16. "The loud brown cow" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 17. Voice that talks to the reader A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Narrator. D) Author. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 18. A poem whose words are arranged in the shape of the subject of the poem A) Couplet. B) Concrete. C) Acrostic. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Concrete. 19. What is "a fixed pattern of accented and unaccounted syllables in lines of fixed length to create rhythm" ? A) Rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Free Verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 20. Comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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