This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 169 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 169 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following sentence is an example of what type of figurative language:She is such an angel! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem; the number of syllables per line A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Assonance. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 3. Which poetry term is used in the following line:'The mountain stood tall and proud'? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. What type of poem has three lines and a 5/7/5 meter? A) Limerick. B) Ode. C) Ballad. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 5. What is the term for the comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as' in a poem? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 6. Free verse poetry does not have..... A) Stanzas. B) Plot or conflict. C) Rhyme or rhythm. D) Serious topic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme or rhythm. 7. What does "hyperbole" mean? A) Repetition of a sound. B) Exaggeration. C) Rhymes at the end of lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exaggeration. 8. The message or moral of the story A) Theme. B) Main idea. C) Summary. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 9. "Comparing two things using 'like' or 'as" ' is a definition of: A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 10. They students were asked to identify the similarities and differences or ..... the two books. A) Format. B) Contrast. C) Evaluate. D) Compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compare. 11. Which of the following includes an example of hyperbole? A) The dog ran swiftly across the park. B) The mosquito buzzed around my ear. C) It took forever to finish my test. D) The clouds marched across the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It took forever to finish my test. 12. The meaning of the poem for the reader to figure out. A) Figurative Language. B) Hyperbole. C) Meter. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Message. 13. What kind of poem (or sentence) might be written on a person's headstone which marks their grave? A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Black out poem. D) Epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epitaph. 14. A comparison between two unlike things NOT using like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 15. A stanza with 4 lines A) Simile. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quatrain. 16. Two lines which form their own stanza and rhyme: A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Internal rhyme. D) A very short poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 17. Why does the author of a poem structure the text in a certain way? A) Because of a change in mood/feeling. B) To allow the reader to take a breath in between stanzas. C) Because a different/new action is taking place. D) All answers are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All answers are correct. 18. A comparison of unlike things A) Metaphor. B) Anaphora. C) Couplet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. Way of speaking to a native speaker, not meaning what you literally say A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 20. An example of what literary term is in lines 3-4?A short while later, through the wood, Came striding brave Miss Riding Hood, The wolf stood there, his eyes ablaze, And yellowish, like mayonnaise. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Sensory language. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory language. ← 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