This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 251 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 251 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define internal rhyme. A) Words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. B) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsa close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. D) A close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. 2. What is an onomatopoeia and which contains correct examples? A) The use of words that sounds suggest the meaning (crash, boom, kerchow). B) The giving of human qualities to an animal object or idea (beauty, love, friendship). C) The use of words that sound suggest their meaning (loud, quiet, explosive). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of words that sounds suggest the meaning (crash, boom, kerchow). 3. A word that imitates a sound; when you say the word, it sounds like what the word means A) Onomatopoeia. B) Oxymoron. C) Pun. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 4. An Idiom is special phrases A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. A long poem written about a famous person or event. A) Bio-poem. B) Acrostic. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 6. A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation A) Stanza. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye Rhyme. 7. What is this is an example of:The clock on the wall laughed at me as I tried to finish my test before class ended. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. ..... is writing that appeals to sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 9. "Getting cold feet" is an example of what type of figurative language? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 10. Lyric poem usually marked by serious and respectful feelings toward an object or person A) Ode. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 11. ..... is a kind of figurative language in which an animal, object, or idea is given human qualities or described as if it is human. A) Alliteration. B) Figurative Language. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 12. What is another word for Theme? A) Lesson. B) Main idea. C) Setting. D) Details. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lesson. 13. Stylistic device that repeats a consonant sound in a series of multiple words A) Simile. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. ..... is to relax, enjoying pleasant warmth. A) Bask. B) Mote. C) Reveal. D) Starvation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bask. 15. The young boy's head was bursting with good ideas! A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. Villanelles have a set structure. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Words and phrases that appeal to the reader's five senses A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 18. Which of the following is the repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Syllables. B) Meter. C) Repetition. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 19. Litotes A) A line of verse consisting of six metrical feet, especially of six dactyls. B) When a reader is aware of something that a character isn't. C) Excessive tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia. D) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. 20. Comparison between two things without using "like" or "as" . Keywords are is, or, are A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. ← 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