This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 263 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 263 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repeating the same beginning sound in more than two words A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. Which of these words is an "adjective?" A) Green. B) Run. C) Monkey. D) Crestview. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green. 3. Excessive pride and arrogance A) Hubris. B) Homeric simile. C) Invocation. D) Muse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hubris. 4. Literature that is not poetry; ex:most essays, short stories, novels, and plays A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Limericks. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 5. Addressing someone absent or dead or nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and could reply. A) Irony. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apostrophe. 6. "She smells as sweet as a rose" is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 7. A stanza or poem that contains 8 lines A) Quatrain. B) Octave. C) Couplet. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. 8. Which term means:a short poem of songlike quality A) Ode. B) Lay. C) Pastoral. D) Idyll. E) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Lyric. 9. The rising and falling of the voice when reading a poem A) Cadence. B) Pentameter. C) Scansion. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cadence. 10. You should ALWAYS pause at the end of every line in a poem A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. A line break is the closing on one line and the start of another. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. An expression in which the meaning cannot be taken as literally true A) Hyperbole. B) Idiom. C) Ode. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 13. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds at the beginning of two or more words A) List poem. B) Prose. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (like lines and stanzas). A) Short story. B) Poetry. C) Prose. D) Drama. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 15. A figure of speech in which in which two things are compared using like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. Is like a poem's paragraph; it is a group of verses bound together to form one section of a poem A) Stanza. B) Syllable. C) Simile. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 17. Use of words, places, characters, or objects to mean something beyond the literal A) Figurative language. B) Irony. C) Personification. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 18. A genre of literature that uses the way words look and sound (also known as rhythm) to transmit meaning to the reader. A) Personification. B) Poetry. C) Speaker. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 19. The "ideas, thoughts, connections, associations "implied by the words in a poem are called: A) Rhythm. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 20. Comparing two unlike things using "is" or "was" A) Simile. B) Stanza. C) Haiku. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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