This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 192 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 192 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Conversation between two fictitious speakers A) Monologue. B) Dialogue. C) Blank verse. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dialogue. 2. What is the purpose of a line in a poem? A) It helps deliver a poem's rhythm and speed. B) It gives it a sound effect. C) It makes sure every poem is the same. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It helps deliver a poem's rhythm and speed. 3. When a line breaks before completing a grammatical unit that can stand on its own A) Internal rhyme. B) Enjambment. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 4. I know I'm going somewhere, and I can hardly wait, Somewhere's not the sort of placewhere someone should be late What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza? A) A, b, c, b. B) A, a, b, b,. C) A, b, a, b. D) A, b, c, d. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A, b, c, b. 5. What is the term for when two (or more) lines of poetry end with words that rhyme? A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Alliteration. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End Rhyme. 6. Compares 2 things by saying one is the other A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to (such as boom or splat) A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 8. Imaginative comparison without using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. An illustrator draws a picture of a person intently watching a bird fly overhead. What is the bird representing? A) Freedom. B) Knowledge. C) The chosen one. D) Birth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Freedom. 10. A group of related items in a poem is called what? A) Rhyming words. B) Personification. C) Stanza. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 11. This is a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines A) Flashback. B) Poem. C) Sonnet. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 12. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 13. A purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor A) Lying. B) Sarcasm. C) Hyperbole. D) Super Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 14. "Your adventure would have been a dusty death if I'd not saved you." ~~ MEDEA A) Unrelated. B) Paradox. C) Chiasmus. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 15. Could be a word, a phrase, or even a sentence; a verse in a poem A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Couplet. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 16. Rhythmical pattern in a poem A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 17. When there is repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sounds, it is ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. How is a poem divided? A) Iamb. B) Lines. C) Denotation. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 19. Is the following line a simile OR metaphor?"My mom has a heart of gold." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. "The cold, wet rain came down in buckets and drenched my clothes." is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. ← 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