This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 139 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 139 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of poem that is sometimes set to music A) Sonnet. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 2. Which of the following is an example of a rhyme A) Share and square. B) Grows and follow. C) Drawing and speak. D) Sale and buy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Share and square. 3. Giving human qualities to something that is not human A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Ex:The crocodile's teeth are white daggers. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. "In the narrowest nest in a corner, My wings pressing close to my side." Can you hear the repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words of this quote? This is called ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 6. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a line or stanza to add emphasis. An example:Blue, to, you, do A) Assonance. B) Repetition. C) Oxymoron. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 7. A poem that uses lines of varying lengths along with unpredictable rhyme schemes and rhythmsis called A) Traditional poetry. B) Free form poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free form poetry. 8. "This room is a circus!" is an example of which poetic device? A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. One line of text in a poem. A) Prose. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 10. "Whose woods these are" A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Inversion. D) Chiasmus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inversion. 11. A repetition of sounds at the ends of words A) Rhythm. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 12. Tells a story in verse; has elements similar to stories such as plot and characters A) Lyric. B) Ballad. C) Narrative. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 13. Unrhymed 3 line lyric poem; lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has 7 syllables. Japanese art form, typically about nature. A) English Sonnet. B) Free verse. C) Haiku. D) Narrative poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 14. What is the definition of alliteration in poetry? A) A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as. B) A group of lines in a poem. C) Repetition of consonant sounds. D) The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition of consonant sounds. 15. A long, narrative poem, usually in very regular meter and rhyme A) Aubade. B) Ballad. C) Pastoral. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 16. Using sound to affect the meaning or reading of the text A) Figurative Language. B) Tone. C) Sound Devices. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sound Devices. 17. ..... about an absent person, idea, or thing? A) Period. B) Exclamation point. C) Apostrophe. D) Question mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apostrophe. 18. Inference A) A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. B) What a word means. C) When a poem does not rhyme. D) The ending of a writing piece. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning. 19. "My students are dynamic, my students are funny, and my students make me happy, " is an example of ..... A) A lie. B) Allusion. C) Chiasmus. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 20. What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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