This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 277 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 277 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The way a poem flows from one idea to the next A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 2. A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated at times throughout a poem or song A) Near or slant rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 3. The traffic noises argued long into the night and finally Carl went to sleep. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. This type of writing is typically reserved for expressing something special in an artistic way. Ideas are contained in lines that may or may not be sentences. Lines are arranged in stanzas. A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Graphs. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 5. Which of these is alliteration? A) All the animals left. B) The chasing cheetah was as fast as a cheetah. C) The dog left his house. D) The friendly dog found a cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The chasing cheetah was as fast as a cheetah. 6. Which type of figurative langauge compares two things without using like or as? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. A stronger comparison saying that something IS something rather than just LIKE it A) Simile. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection. A) Tone. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denotation. 9. Which term refers to the purposeful repetition of a phrase, verse, or stanza? A) Verse. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 10. Which word group could result in consonance? A) Ai. B) Ie. C) Th. D) Ea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Th. 11. TWO lines that rhyme. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 12. This kind of poem tells a story and may become a folk song. A) Lyrical poem. B) Ballad poem. C) Epic poem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad poem. 13. Can Carrie count the crying canaries correctly? A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. What is the definition of the term:simile? A) Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; it implies a comparison. B) A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. C) A combination of words, or parts of words, that contradict each other (deafening silence). D) Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items. 15. A poem of fourteen lines using s wide range of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The English form usually ends with a couplet A) Sonnet. B) Villanelle. C) Free Verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 16. What is the rhyme scheme? "I dream of an ocean blueOne to sail on fast and trueI dream of an ocean clear as iceTo follow my dreams would be oh no so nice" A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABCD. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABB. 17. What is it called when there is a repetition of CONSONANT sounds in nearby words? A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 18. There's a guy in a tux and he stands in the corner, / Feedin' the jukebox his dimes. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 19. "as soon as I heard the miau miau I tried to find where it was comming from ..... "is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 20. A couplet consist of ..... A) 1 line. B) 2 lines. C) 3 lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 lines. ← 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