This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 188 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 188 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I want to know how you skip across the stars and use the moon as a landing mat. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Using words that have a very similar ending sound. A) Slant rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme. 3. The silence crept into the classroom. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Open secret / tragic comedy / original copies A) Paradox. B) Zeugma. C) Chiasmus. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 5. A dove moved silently above the waves. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 6. Language that just means exactly what the words mean is called A) Figurative language. B) Literal language. C) Ambiguous language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal language. 7. "Two little clouds one April day, Were floating by above the hay." What is this an example of? A) Simile. B) Rhyming/rhyme. C) Poetry. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming/rhyme. 8. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation A) Analyze. B) Poetry. C) Tone. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze. 9. A poem with six stanzas and six lines, and let's just say has a lot of magical sixes in it A) Sestina. B) Ballad. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sestina. 10. What type of figurative language is this statement:My head is pounding like a drum A) Imagery and Simile. B) Imagery and Metaphor. C) Imagery only. D) UNSURE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery and Simile. 11. This sentence is an example of what: "You are my knight in shining armor." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 12. What is an elegy? A) A poem written in honor of someone deceased. B) A poem that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration to someone or something. C) A poem that tells a story. D) Poetry NOT written in rhyme or meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem written in honor of someone deceased. 13. Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words A) Theme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 14. When words at the end of a verse rhyme A) End Rhyme. B) Final Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 15. What is the individual style in which a certain author writes his or her works? A) Voice. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 16. The line of a poem stops and is continued on the next line even though there is plenty of space and the idea continues. A) Paragraph. B) Line Space. C) Line Break. D) Indention. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line Break. 17. Eye rime A) General character of attitude in a piece of writing. B) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. C) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. D) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). 18. Language that appeals to your sense-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is A) Sensory language. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory language. 19. Exaggeration or overstatement of a fact for effect A) Enjambment. B) Hyperbole. C) Haiku. D) Iambic pentameter:. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 20. "My love is like a rose" is ..... A) Personification. B) A simile. C) A metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A simile. ← 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