This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 259 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 259 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 3 stanzas of 4 lines have an abab/cdcd/efef followed by a 2-line stanza A) Iambic pentameter. B) Epic poem. C) Villanelle. D) Shakespearean Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespearean Sonnet. 2. Two or more lines that group together. A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Break. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 3. The repetition of beginning sounds in one or two lines of poetry A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. Who is the author of a poem? A) The poet. B) The speaker. C) The reader. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The poet. 5. A recurring similarity of sounds between words. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 6. Group of words, and is an alternative to a sentence. It's included in the stanza A) Poetry. B) Theme. C) Line. D) Scene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 7. What is the name for an expression of ideas or feelings in words, usually having a form, rhythm, or rhyme? A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 8. Beware the Jubjub bird, and shunThe frumious Bandersnatch! A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. 9. A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true A) Antithesis. B) Oxymoron. C) Paradox. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 10. A poem that forms a shape or object A) Ballad. B) Haiku. C) Limerick. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concrete. 11. Comparing 2 things using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. What type of figurative language is the following? "You may shoot me with your words." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. "Hope is the thing with feathers" A) Paradox. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 14. Comparing two things that are not alike in order to create a better picture for the reader (without using like or as) A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. In this type of rhyme, two words are close, but do not rhyme exactly. A) Exact rhyme. B) External rhyme. C) Slant rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slant rhyme. 16. Which of the following is a play on words? A) Allusion. B) Pun. C) Idiom. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 17. The basic rhythmic structure of a line of poetry-the number of syllables and the pattern of emphasis A) Imagery. B) Meter. C) Ballad. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 18. A pair of rhyming lines. A) Couplet. B) Allegory. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 19. A figurative comparison that would not be literally applicable A) Anaphora. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen and arranged to create effects A) Personification. B) Figurative language. C) Poetry. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. ← 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