This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 224 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 224 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poets often use ..... A symbol is a person, place, event, or object that suggests a deeper meaning than its literal meaning. A) Simple. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 2. Two rhyming lines of about the same length;a pair of lines that rhymeEx. I think that I shall never seeA poem as lovely as a tree A) Couplet. B) End rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 3. The example highlighted below is an example of? They boy with the toy had so much joy. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 4. I felt my tongue in my mouth, like a limp lizard.This is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. Words that end in both the same vowel and the same consonant sound (sun and run) A) Exact rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Masculine rhyme. D) Feminine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exact rhyme. 6. Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning or words A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 7. The attitude that a writer takes towards a subject is ..... A) Mood. B) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 8. "He sits on the steps ..... "This line is an example of ..... A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 9. Understatement to downplay an idea A) Litotes. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Litotes. 10. A wedding ring is an example of ..... ? A) Irony. B) Sensory Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 11. The first consonant sound of a word is repeated two or more times. (The Wiggly Worm) A) Metaphors. B) Alliteration. C) Similes. D) Italics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. Matching ending sounds in words or sometimes lines of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Lines. C) Simile. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 13. Imagery in poetry is language that appeals to ..... A) Sight. B) Sound. C) All senses. D) Smell. E) Touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All senses. 14. The repeating of words of phrases or sounds within a short span of text A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Mood. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 15. Clerihew A) Poetry with the primary purpose of teaching or preaching. B) Line of poetry that does not end with a punctuation mark. C) Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). D) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A whimsical, four-line biographical poem, where the first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the rhyme scheme is AABB. 16. ..... is the feeling or atmosphere perceived by the reader. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 17. A long, poetic speech in theater and in plays that is spoken by one character in front of other characters. A) Couplet. B) Diction. C) Dramatic monologue. D) End-stopped line:. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dramatic monologue. 18. The truth of life revealed through literature A) Climax. B) Story. C) Theme. D) Concept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 19. How many lines does a Sonnet have? A) 10. B) 12. C) 13. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 20. What is the definition of a theme? A) Descriptive words used to help the reader visualize what is happening. B) The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse. C) The strong regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. D) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What the poem is saying or trying to convey. ← 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