This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 173 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 173 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 2. A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter A) Imperative Mood. B) Independent Clause. C) Inversion. D) Invective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inversion. 3. "Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay." -Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Referring to the Biblical Garden of Eden is what type of figurative language? A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Oxymoron. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 4. Define free verse poetry. A) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line. B) Repetition of sounds at the end of words. C) Poetry that talks about freedom. D) Poems that do not follow set rules. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poems that do not follow set rules. 5. A sound, word, phrase, or line that is repeated for emphasis A) Consonance. B) Repetition. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 6. End of one line of poetry and beginning of a new line A) Stanza. B) Line break. C) Meter. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line break. 7. Repetitive sounds produced by consonants A) Lyric. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 8. Type of meter that has 2 syllables, (unstressed$\rightarrow$stressed) A) Dactyl. B) Iamb. C) Anapest. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iamb. 9. I feel as free as a bird. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. Type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. A form of literature that uses rhythm, rhyme, sound, or structure to express something in an artistic way A) Prose. B) Limericks. C) Poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 12. Choose the definition for:simile A) The repetition of initial consonant sounds used by writers to draw attention to certain words or ideas. B) A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else that is unlike it. C) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike ideas. D) A type of figurative language that uses exaggeration, either for comic effect or to express strong emotion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a comparison between two unlike ideas. 13. Which kind of metrical foot goes in an unstressed, unstressed, stressed pattern? A) Dactyl. B) Trochee. C) Anapest. D) Spondee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anapest. 14. A phrase that has to be interpreted is called- A) Figurative language. B) Metaphor. C) Poem. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Figurative language. 15. 1 stressed syllable + 1 (or 2) stressed/unstressed syllables = A) A foot. B) To room. C) A meter. D) A poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A foot. 16. A unit of verse consisting the words in a single row A) Verse. B) Syllable. C) Poetry. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 17. She is a snake. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. "She's a good swimmer, but she's no Ariel." This is an example of A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 19. Compares two unlike things without using the words like or as A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. Who is talking in the poem A) Character. B) Poet. C) Audience. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. ← 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