This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 257 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 257 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which figurative device compares two seemingly unlike things? A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 2. Consonance is the repetition of the same consonant or consonant pattern two or more times in short succession. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 3. His new car was as fast as my dad's truck. A) Hyperbole. B) Not hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not hyperbole. 4. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem extract 'My Phone'? A) A, a, b, b. B) A, b, c, b. C) A, b, a, b. D) A, b, c, c. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A, b, c, b. 5. Shifts in poems are similar to the climax in a story because A) Nothing else in the poem is important. B) It tells the meaning of the poem. C) It represents a new insight for the speaker. D) It reveals the speaker's true attitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It represents a new insight for the speaker. 6. Doesn't follow regular meterical patterns A) Free verse. B) Allusion. C) Enjambment. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 7. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Meter. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 8. Rhyming that occurs at the end of lines of poetry. A) Internal rhyme. B) Off rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 9. The use of the same word or phrase multiple times A) Repetition. B) Repeating. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 10. Language that helps a reader recreate, in his or her mind, what the writer is describing. A) Poetry. B) Imagery. C) Form. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. Which of these is a good "symbol" for love? A) A Heart. B) A Mustache. C) A Waterfall. D) A knife. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Heart. 12. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats of a poem A) Meter. B) Repetition. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 13. Which kind of poemspells out a piece of a word at the beginning of each line? A) Black out poem. B) Acrostic poem. C) Limerick. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Acrostic poem. 14. The literary term "diction" refers to A) The dictionary definition of a word. B) The way we speak. C) An author's choice of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An author's choice of words. 15. Haiku was first written in A) China. B) Thailand. C) The United Kingdom. D) Japan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Japan. 16. Chocolate candy is sweet and yummyIt goes down smoothly in my tummy! A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain. C) Couplet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 17. A winner of a spelling bee failing a spelling test. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 18. Version of a metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Pun. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 19. The poet's choice of words A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Theme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diction. 20. Directly compares unlike things (one thing is another, no like or as) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Ode. D) None of above. 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