This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 185 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 185 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the rhyme scheme from Sonnet 30: " ..... thing may be told ..... should harden ice ..... with senseless cold ..... by wonderful device" A) Father. B) BBCC. C) AABB. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 2. She was a night owl. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings; songlike A) Narrative. B) Stanza. C) Lyric. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 4. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines, widely used by Shakespeare A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Couplet. D) Concrete poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 5. In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States? A) D-Day on the shores of France. B) Pearl Harbor. C) Invasion of Poland. D) W-E Give. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pearl Harbor. 6. The repetition of the same vowel sounds within words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 7. Iambic pentameter is how many syllables A) 5. B) 7. C) 10. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 8. Metaphor can be defined as: A) A comparison of two things that are different from each other but share some common qualities. B) The moral of a story. C) Uses like or as to compare two things. D) An exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A comparison of two things that are different from each other but share some common qualities. 9. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Ballad. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 10. When rhyming words are at the ends of lines A) Analogy. B) Euphony. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End Rhyme. 11. My sister is a sloth in the morning. Is this an example of A) Metaphor?. B) Simile?. C) Onomatopoeia?. D) Rhyme?. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor?. 12. The correspondence of sound between words or the ending of words, especially when these words are used at the ends of lines of poetry. A) Couplet. B) End rhyme. C) Rhyme. D) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 13. "Pop!" and "Splat!" are examples of- A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 14. What is the definition of free verse? A) Poetry defined by its lack of strict structure. B) Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet, often in a highly musical vein. C) Poems shaped to look like their subject. D) Songlike poems that tell stories. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry defined by its lack of strict structure. 15. A group of lines in a poem (like a paragraph) A) Stanza. B) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 16. A comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. What is "the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse" ? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse poetry. C) Haikus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 18. The candle flame danced in the dark. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Personification. 19. A poem with a lack of strict structure; no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length or stanza pattern A) Narrative. B) Free verse. C) Ballad. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 20. A pattern of end rhymes (words at the end of a line) in a poem. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. ← 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