This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 143 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 143 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference to an important event, person, or object in order to elicit a response from the reader A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Understatement. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 2. Repeating words, lines, or phrases to create a feeling is ..... A) Mood. B) Repetition. C) Tone. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 3. What term means the alternate pattern of rhymes? A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 4. Making little or light of something for effect; an understatement A) Hyperbole. B) Figurative language. C) Limerick. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litotes. 5. The way a poem looks on the page is called its ..... A) Sound. B) Free verse. C) Rhythm. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 6. Definition:regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem EX) AABBC A) Stanza. B) Lines. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 7. The poem is an extended metaphor. What two things is it comparing? A) It is comparing a Covid mask to a superhero mask. B) It is comparing the mask to hiding our true feelings. C) It is comparing the mask to the world. D) It is comparing the world to our true feelings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It is comparing the mask to hiding our true feelings. 8. Which kind of sound device is used? "all the loveless land" A) Anaphora. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. Language that is not meant to be interpreted literally A) Figurative language. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 10. Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry; brings out the musical qualities A) Sound device. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 11. Mom Told Son a Thousand Times Drew's mom couldn't believe her eyes when she came home from the grocery store to find that her son still hadn't taken out the trash. "I must have reminded him at least a thousand times, " she said. "I told her that I would take care of it after I finished playing my video game, " Drew protested. What type of figurative language is used? A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. The words cat and bat are an example of ..... ? A) Repetition. B) Free verse. C) I didn't study. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 13. This means that the sound of the word is like the noise of the thing itis describing:pop, boom, crash, slurp ..... A) Metaphor. B) Similarly. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 14. The atmosphere, or feeling, created by the author in a poem. A) Imagery. B) Stanza. C) Author's Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 15. Structural elements of Drama? A) Cast of Characters, Dialogue, Stage Directions, Setting, Scenes, Acts. B) Cast of Characters, Dialogue, Stage Directions, Setting, Scenes, Verse. C) Cast of Characters, Dialogue, Stage Directions, Setting, Scenes, Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cast of Characters, Dialogue, Stage Directions, Setting, Scenes, Acts. 16. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Ballad. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 17. This is the repetition of a vowel sounds, like "Aunt Annie ate alligators." A) Alliteration. B) Cesura. C) Assonance. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 18. A pattern of stressed and unstressed beats in a poem is its ..... A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 19. Another word for the "turn, " which occurs after the octave of an Italian Sonnet A) Voltaire. B) Time. C) Terminus. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 20. The use of words that imitate the sounds they represent is called ..... A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole tagsLiterary Terms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. ← 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