This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 162 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 162 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Gives human qualities to nonhuman subjects A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry A) Refrain. B) Meter. C) Line. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 3. What is the definition of an allusion? A) An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. B) A row of words. C) A group of lines in a poem. D) Repetition of a consonant sound in the middle or end of a word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly. 4. Imitation of natural sounds of words, words you "hear" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Imagery. C) Compare. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. A ..... is an apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradox. 6. Feeling a literary work creates in its reader A) Suspense. B) Anaphora. C) Foreshadow. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in a series of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. Two syllables-1st one is soft, 2nd one is heavy A) Iambic pentameter. B) Iambic rhythm. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic rhythm. 9. The author's attitude about their topic, characters or audience. A) Mood. B) Setting. C) Tone. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 10. What does Free Verse mean? A) A poem that tells a story. B) A Japanese poem. C) A five line poem that rhymes in every line. D) A poem that does not have rhyme or patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A poem that does not have rhyme or patterns. 11. The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. An example:Buzz and Crack A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Euphemism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 12. The core unit of a poem A) Line. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 13. Type of poem that tells a story A) Mood. B) Narrative. C) Pun. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 14. The distinctive way that a poet uses language, including word choice, line length, figurative language, and imagery A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Style. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Style. 15. Giving a non-living object human characteristics. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 16. The repeating of final soundsex. East/Westlong/wrong A) Consonance. B) Rhythm. C) Computer. D) Center. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 17. "A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself." A) Noun. B) Symbol. C) Mr. C. D) Ms. Rios. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 18. Rain pitter-patters, drip-drops, and rat-a-tats on the tin roof. Creeks babble and churn. Lakes ripple. Rivers rush. Oceans crash, roar, and thunder against the shore. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 19. Repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, or sentence. A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 20. The words that are used to create a picture in your mind are called ..... A) Paraphrase. B) Title. C) Shift. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. ← 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