This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 236 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 236 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which poetic term is defined as "a figurative language-comparing one thing to another" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Which element of poetry is highlighted in this poem? "You are my sun, my moon, and all of my stars." A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Which word means poems do not rhyme and sound like normal speech? A) Free verse. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 4. Elegy A) A poem written to lament someone's death. B) An Italian form consisting of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines each with no definitive structure or rhyme scheme. C) A narrative poem that spins a lengthy tale of a hero's great valor and adventure. D) Words, names, or messages spelled out by particular letters in a series of lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem written to lament someone's death. 5. The repetition of the same beginning sound, usually a consonant, in a phrase or line of poetry (She sells seashells by the seashore) A) Methaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. In poetry, what is ALLITERATION? A) A type of poem. B) A type of metaphor in poetry. C) A Japanese poem. D) Repetition of the same stressed consonant sound in a group of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition of the same stressed consonant sound in a group of words. 7. What kind of figurative language is this?Over the winter glaciers, I see the summer glow. A) Theme. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. Worn-out expressions, overused comparisons A) Cliche. B) Symbol. C) Simile. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cliche. 9. Cinquain A) A message or life lesson a poem or text is conveying. B) Writing that usually has figurative language and is written in separate lines, and can have repeated rhythm and rhyme; this type of writing usually is a way of creatively expressing emotions or ideas. C) Poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme. D) A message or life lesson a poem or text is conveying. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poem is a verse of five lines that do not rhyme. 10. Independent and not controlled by outside forces A) Argument. B) Autonomous. C) Autocratic. D) Inadequate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autonomous. 11. What vocab word from this week is also in the definition of alliteration? A) Repetition. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed one A) Anapest. B) Dactyl. C) Iamb. D) Trochee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anapest. 13. The writer's choice of words A) Imagery. B) Diction. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 14. When a writer uses an extreme exaggeration, he or she is writing a(n) ..... A) Oxymoron. B) Naming. C) Hyperbole. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. What vocabulary word means:Unwilling, Hesitant A) Idiom. B) Superior. C) Collaborate. D) They hesitate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They hesitate. 16. The ..... is the voice of the poem A) Theme. B) Speaker. C) Writer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 17. Tools that writers use to create images, or "paint pictures, " in the mind of the reader A) Sound. B) Rhyme. C) Figures of Speech. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figures of Speech. 18. The return of a word, phrase, or sentence for effect A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Refrain. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 19. ..... is a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem A) Stanza. B) Free verse. C) Form. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 20. Poetry is similar to prose because ..... A) They both have characters and settings. B) They both have rhyming words. C) None of the above,. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both have characters and settings. ← 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