This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 141 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 141 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem that has a formal structure, containing 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme and meter. A) Sonnet. B) Ode. C) Ballad. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 2. What is a series of words with the same beginning sounds (Sally sells seashells)? A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. Ex:It was as boring as watching paint dry. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. The definition of the term "imagery" is ..... A) Words that imitate natural sounds. B) Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses. C) The use of a word, sound, or phrase multiple times. D) How the speaker feels about their subject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses. 5. Rhythmical pattern of a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Cadence. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 6. A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing A) Apostrophe. B) Symbol. C) Allusion. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 7. Reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. A) Catharsis. B) Allusion. C) Diction. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 8. The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Verse. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 9. What is the best definition for assonance? A) What you call your brother. B) Words that start with the same sound. C) Words that have the same sound in the middle of the word. D) Words that have the same ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words that have the same sound in the middle of the word. 10. A statement that seems contradictory (or contrary to common sense) yet, may in fact be true. A) Paradox. B) Anaphora. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 11. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza is called A) Enjambment. B) Assonance. C) Cutting. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 12. Dactyl A) Stanza of 2 lines. B) Line consisting of 10 syllables. C) Foot consisting of a stress followed by 2 unstressed syllables. D) A deliberate rhetorical, grammatical, or rhythmic pause, break, cut, turn, division, or pivot in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot consisting of a stress followed by 2 unstressed syllables. 13. An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem A) Sonnet. B) Enjambment. C) Verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 14. What word means a line or group of lines that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem. A) Denotation. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 15. A pause near the middle of a line A) Cut off. B) Cutting. C) Caesura salad. D) Comma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cutting. 16. Nine/AlignThrough/Undo are examples of: A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Intonation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 17. ..... is the rhythm or pattern of accented or unaccented syllables in the lines of a poem. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 18. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 19. The repetition of words at the beginning of phrases or sentences is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 20. A phrase that has two opposite words A) Simile. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. ← 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