This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 150 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 150 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants A) Simile. B) Parallelism. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 2. What is a prose poem? A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. C) Consists of three lines-line #1= 5 syllables; line #2 7 syllables; line #3 5 syllables. D) Poetry set to music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. 3. What is a refrain A) The voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem. B) The pattern in rhyme which represents identical final sounds in lines or verses. C) The repetition of vowel sounds within words. D) A repeated passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A repeated passage. 4. Language that appeals to one or more of your senses ..... sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 5. The universal message of the poem. A) Free Verse. B) Verse. C) Theme. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 6. One unit of meter.There are five basic types of ..... :iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 7. The repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants, in neighboring words A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. The place where a line ends in a poem is called ..... A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line break. 9. "The sound of her voice was sweet" is an example of: A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Recommendation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recommendation. 10. The layers of meaning that a word has, or the emotional associations or implications of a word. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 11. Slight or inaccurate repetition of sounds (vowel sounds in words DO NOT exactly rhyme) A) Near/half/impure rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) True rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near/half/impure rhyme. 12. Words that end in the same sound A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyming words. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming words. 13. The comparison of two unlike things with similar qualities using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 14. "Sally sold seashells down by the seashore" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. A single metrical line of poetry, or a name for poetry in general (as opposed to prose) A) Free Verse. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Metrical Verse. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 16. A narrative poem-usually containing much repetition and often repeated refrain-often tell a single dramatic episode A) Ballad. B) Ode. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 17. An ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or verse A) Stanza. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 18. The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings (buzz, clank, hiss) A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. Which is an example of assonance? A) Allie's apple-eating alligator. B) Tall, towering two-faced traitors. C) Pass the fuss on to Miss Tess. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allie's apple-eating alligator. 20. Word and rhythm choices that affect how a poem sounds A) Poetic structure. B) Poetic sound. C) Stanza. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic sound. ← 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