This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 237 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 237 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An expression that has been overused and has lost its original meaning "Time heals all wounds" A) Cliche. B) Consonance. C) Analogy. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cliche. 2. Triple meter A) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). B) 3 feet per line. C) A comparison between two things using like or as. D) 3 beats per measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3 beats per measure. 3. A group of lines in a poem. Like a paragraph in a story A) Stanza. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 4. The use of language to create beautiful or forceful pictures in the reader's mind. A) Narrative Poem (Narrative Poem). B) Imagery (imagenes literarias). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery (imagenes literarias). 5. A rhyme in which two words are alike in some sounds, but do not exactly rhyme A) End Rhyme. B) Slant Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant Rhyme. 6. A comparison of two things where one things is said to BE the other A) Free verse. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. The use of a word to suggest a different association than its literal meaning, such as emotional associations, is ..... A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Pronunciation. D) Renotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 8. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the word like or as. A) Tone. B) Symbol. C) Simile. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 9. Which word is defined as "the actual meaning of a word or phrase" ? A) Figurative meaning. B) Poetry. C) Literal meaning. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Literal meaning. 10. A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing A) Cutting. B) Hyperbole. C) Euphemism. D) Contrast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Euphemism. 11. What term refers to a type of rhyme in which the words have the same spelling but different sounds and meanings? A) Homophone. B) Homograph. C) Homonym. D) Heteronym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homograph. 12. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words near each other. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. The narrative voice in a poem (such as a sonnet or lyric) which tells of their feelings, experiences, or situation. A) Narrator. B) Protagonist. C) Speaker. D) Commentator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 14. What is the definition of the term:Alliteration? A) The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds (hat and sit). B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr). C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. 15. Using a concrete object or phrase to represent a different abstract idea is called ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbol. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 16. Does this sentence show personification? The party died soon after we left. A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 17. The feeling of a reader when reading a text A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Setting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 18. A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. Most have three strong stresses in lines 1, 2, and 5 and two strong stresses in lines 3 and 4. A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Quatrain. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 19. Several lines grouped together in a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Poetry. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 20. Do you like blue? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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