This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 222 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 222 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following words completes the rhyme:grade, maid, spade, fade A) Afraid. B) Today. C) Phrase. D) Haze. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afraid. 2. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Tone. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 3. The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again. A) REPETITION. B) TONE. C) THEME. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REPETITION. 4. Poetry not written in rhythmical pattern or meter. A) Ode. B) Blank verse. C) Free verse. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 5. The use of words that sound like what they mean: "I heard a fly buzz" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 6. What is metaphor? A) Exaggeration for effect. B) A comparison of unlike things without using like or as. C) A comparison of unlike things using like or as. D) Repeition of intial consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A comparison of unlike things without using like or as. 7. ..... compares two or more things by implying that one thing is another. It does not use like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. Which of the following is not an example of figurative language used to make comparisons? A) Metaphor. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 10. The recurring elements of fire and mockingjay in The Hunger Games are examples of ..... A) Symbols. B) Repetition. C) Motif. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 11. ..... can be defined as: "A pattern of end rhymes in a poem" A) Metaphor. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 12. A Narrative Poem that appears in the form of an extended metaphor. A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Allegory. D) Dramatic Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allegory. 13. The wind was loud, but very calm.It whirled around, like a tornadonot slowing the slightest bit. How many lines are in this poem? A) 1. B) 6. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 14. Extreme hunger, starvation A) Bask. B) Mote. C) Reveal. D) Famine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Famine. 15. The speaker is ..... the same person as the author A) Always. B) Never. C) Sometimes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sometimes. 16. A person, place, object, animal, or activity that stands for something beyond itself A) Metaphor. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 17. The voice that speaks behind the scene. It is the narrative voice that speaks of a writer's feelings or situation. This would be the: A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Speaker. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 18. What is going beyond the ordinary meaning of words in order to achieve an effect or express an idea by using metaphors, similes, irony, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, onomatopoeia? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 19. When the poet conveys meaning by creating a metaphor that lasts the entire poem. A) Extended metaphor. B) Stanza. C) Poetry. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extended metaphor. 20. Combines two terms that are normally contradictory. An example:Living dead, pretty ugly A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Free Verse. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. ← 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