This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 18 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "My cell phone screamed at me from across the room."Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human is called A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. Narrative poetry A) Poetry that tells a story in verse. B) Poetry that has the 1st and 3rd lines having 5 syllables and the second line having 7. C) Rhythmical pattern in a poem. D) Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry that tells a story in verse. 3. Harsh, jarring sounds, words with k's, g's, ch's, t's, p's, and other gutturals and explosives A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. C) Enjambment. D) Masculine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. 4. A poem in which the first letter of each line spells out a word, name, or phrase when read vertically A) Bio-poem. B) Acrostic. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic. 5. A line of poetry MUST be a complete sentence. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. Rhyme in which the final accented vowel and all succeeding consonants or syllables are identical, while the preceding consonants are different. (I.E. A perfect rhyme) ("dog and hog"; "red and dead" . etc.) A) Half Rhyme. B) Exact Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Eye Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exact Rhyme. 7. References that trigger memories of something you may have heard, seen, smelled, etc ..... A) Assonance. B) Image. C) Personification. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Image. 8. When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same ..... A) Free verse. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhyme. 9. Referring metaphorically to persons, places, or things from history or previous literature A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 10. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Meter. B) Rhyme. C) Verse. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 11. ..... a comparison of two unlike things, using the words "like" or "as" . A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Synonym. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 13. An example of the term "repetition" is ..... A) If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar . B) The thunder crashed as waves splashed on the shore. C) She sells seashells by the seashore. D) The book made me freaked out. I couldn't sleep afterwards. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar . 14. An inference is ..... A) Text evidence + what you know. B) Retelling a text. C) Making a guess without evidence. D) Information written directly into the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Text evidence + what you know. 15. A comparison of two different things or ideas using the words "like" or "as" A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Assonance. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 16. What is the definition of alliteration? A) The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant. B) A comparison between two things that does not use any helping words. C) The repetition of the intial consonant sounds. D) A brief and direct reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of the intial consonant sounds. 17. The rhythmic pattern of a poem is ..... A) Meter. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Enjambment. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 18. Someone who creates a play, author of a play. A) Playwright. B) Cast. C) Props. D) Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Playwright. 19. The narrator or the voice of the poem. A) Stanza. B) Speaker. C) Assonance. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 20. The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard(Robert Frost, "Out, Out" ) A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. ← 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