This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 14 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words that are repeated in a poem A) Imagery. B) Refrain. C) Form. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 2. Giving something that's not alive, human qualities A) Free verse poem. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Lyrical poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. An extreme exaggeration used to suggest strong emotion or create a comic effect. A) Rhythm. B) Ballad. C) Consonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 4. Idiom A) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. B) A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. (It's raining cats and dogs). C) Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. D) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally. (It's raining cats and dogs). 5. The use of words with similar end sounds A) End Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 6. A repeated line or group of lines. A) Rhyme. B) Cinquain. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 7. What do we call long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or a lofty idea? A) An elegy. B) An epic. C) A sonnet. D) A ballad. E) An ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) An ode. 8. The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images, not only of the visual sense, but of sensation and emotion as well. A) Figurative language. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 9. A comparison that uses the words like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. / A) Stressed syllable. B) Unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stressed syllable. 11. The use of words whose endings sound alike A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 12. Short verse intended to express the emotions of the author, sometimes set to music A) Couplet. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Doublet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 13. Understatement A) The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. B) 6 six-line stanzas ending with tercet; last words of each line in 1st stanza are repeated as last words in next stanza. C) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. D) The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is. 14. A rhyme happens when ..... A) A poem captures a moment or a feeling. B) A poem tells about a funny moment. C) Words have the same ending sound. D) Someone writes a serious poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words have the same ending sound. 15. Epics typically involve gods and heroes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. An expression where the lteral meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression A) Form. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 17. Which of the following is the definition of a metaphor? A) When an author gives human characteristics to an inanimate object. B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. 18. Repetition A) Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis. B) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. C) The use of words that imitate sounds. D) A group of lines in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis. 19. An expressive non-literal use of language A) Couplet. B) Figure of speech. C) Free verse. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech. 20. I am the sun I am the moon I am the light I am the dark is an example of A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. ← 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