This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 242 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 242 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The voice in the poem A) Tone. B) Them. C) Speaker. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 2. The repetition of the same vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words A) Rhythm. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 3. Words within the same line of poetry rhyme. A) Near/half/impure rhyme. B) Eye rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) True rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 4. What is a poem written in a beat that uses 10 syllables in each line that are alrenately stressed? A) Creek. B) Meter. C) Iambic pentameter. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic pentameter. 5. What is a sentence that continues over several lines of poetry? A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) End-stop. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 6. Written in sentences and paragraphs, just like fiction or nonfiction. While prose poems don't have line breaks, you can still see their poetic quality through techniques like repetition, figurative language and imagery A) Metaphors. B) Verses. C) Prose poem. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose poem. 7. What is a group of words in a row; may be based on meter or rhyme? A) Line Break. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 8. The narrator is a character in the literary work and refers to themselves using "I" or "me." Since the narrator participates directly in the action, their point of view is limited. The word is ..... A) Imagery. B) Omniscient third-person. C) Speaker. D) First-person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) First-person point of view. 9. When a human quality, emotion, or ambition is given to a non-human object or being A) Allegory. B) Apostrophe. C) Anthropomorphism. D) Anagrams. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropomorphism. 10. An instruction written into the script of a play, indicating actions, movements of performers, or production requirements A) Stage directions. B) Dialogue. C) Scene. D) Act. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage directions. 11. "Why are math books sad? Because they have so many problems." is an example of: A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Pun. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 12. A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a completely new hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allegory. 13. A couplet can best be defined as ..... A) Two consecutive lines that rhyme. B) Repeated vowel sounds. C) Poetry that does not rhyme and does not have a meter. D) Continuing a sentence/idea after the line breaks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two consecutive lines that rhyme. 14. Is a word that imitates a sound, like "clang" or "sizzle." A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 15. Figures of speech or vivid descriptions used to produce mental images by appealing to the five senses A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. What type of poem must have exactly 4 lines? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Narrative. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 17. Which term is this the definition for:Repetition is an important poetic technique. It is when writers reuse words, phrases, images, or structures multiple times within a poem. A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 18. What is an example of hyperbole? A) The door went BAM when it was shut. B) I have a MILLION THINGS to do. C) She is as fast as a shark. D) My uncle cried when he sat on the chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I have a MILLION THINGS to do. 19. Which is an example of a hyperbole? A) The trees danced in the breeze. B) He was sneaky as a fox!. C) My brother eats like a horse. D) I caught a fish the size of our house!. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) I caught a fish the size of our house!. 20. Poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker A) Lyrical poem. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical poem. ← 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