This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A foot of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Pentameter. B) Three meters. C) Couplet. D) Iamb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Iamb. 2. Imagery uses the ..... senses to describe something. A) 17. B) 5. C) 3. D) Only smell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 3. "Be kind to others" is an example of A) Theme. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 4. The repetition in words of identical or similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 5. Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell.) A) Imagery. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Mood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 6. A direct comparison of two unlike things A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 7. Refers to the feelings and ideas a word evokes. A) Synonym. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connotation. 8. This rhyme ends in words with both the same vowel and the same consonant sound. (sun and run) A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Exact rhyme. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exact rhyme. 9. Language that communicates ideas beyond their literal meaning A) Figurative Language. B) Literal Language. C) Imagery. D) Simile. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative Language. 10. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." Ex:Love is a battlefield A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Novels like Harry Potter and Wonder are written in..... A) Prose. B) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 12. Rhetorical A) Writing and reading a poem aloud. B) Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric. C) System to create a, acrostic poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric. 13. Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Stanza. C) Free verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. A contradiction that can be true and untrue at the same time. A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Repetition. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 15. A phrase which has a meaning that is commonly understood by speakers of the language, but whose meaning is often different from the normal meaning of the words. An example:it's a piece of cake A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 16. Rhythm & Meter is best defined as..... A) Number of lines in each stanza. B) Number of punctuation used in each line of poetry. C) The sound pattern in a line of poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sound pattern in a line of poetry. 17. Giving inanimate object characteristics of life. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 18. "the wind whispered a midnight message to me" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. A big exaggeration used to make a point A) Hyperbole. B) Enjambment. C) Meter. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 20. It is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) None of above. 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