This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 221 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 221 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Painting a picture with words is called A) Assonance. B) Imagery. C) Irony. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 2. If one uses hyperbole, he or she tends to ..... A) Overexaggerate. B) Underexaggerate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Overexaggerate. 3. The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas used for emphasis in writing A) Refrain. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. What is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words? A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 5. A group of lines in a poem; like a paragraph or verse A) Lines. B) Chorus. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 6. Which term means the author's/poet's attitude about a topic (positive, negative, or neutral)? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 7. A 5 line poem with a set structure. A) Clinic. B) Dash. C) Clinquin. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clinquin. 8. The poet's attitude in style or expression toward the subject or towards the audience (ex) loving, ironic, bitter, solemn) A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Metrical Verse. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 9. In the poem, repeating the phrase "kingdom by the sea" is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) A refrain. D) Per room. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A refrain. 10. What is it called when words share an accented vowel sound and succeeding consonant sound? A) Rhyme. B) Masculine rhyme. C) Feminine rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 11. Imagery only appeals to the sense of sight. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. The following lines are examples of:But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. A) Enjambments. B) End-Stopped Lines. C) Couplets. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-Stopped Lines. 13. The author's attitude. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Stanza. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. An indirect or passing reference A) Onomatopoeia. B) Allusion. C) Figurative language. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 15. If something is fragile it is A) Made of glass. B) Hard and strong. C) From France. D) Easily broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Easily broken. 16. The Odyssey begins ..... years after the Trojan War ended. A) 10. B) 20. C) 5. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 17. Something like "Civil War" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 18. A poem in the form of an address to a particular subject A) Elegy. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 19. Using like or as to compare two unlike things in an effort to describe something A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 20. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. ← 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