This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 279 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 279 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An elaborate or extended metaphor or other figure of speech that compares two things that are extremely different A) Conceit. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conceit. 2. A literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole A) Onomatopoeia. B) Synecdoche. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 3. When what you say is the opposite of what you mean A) Sarcasm. B) Situational irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verbal irony. 4. It felt like it was a thousand degrees out last Sunday. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. The following is an example of what? I have a grey and white cat, Who is old, lazy and fat. A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 6. AABB is an example of what in poetry? A) Football plays. B) Idioms. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. E) A music band from Austria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 7. A poem with free verse contains A) Multiple stanzas. B) A fixed rhyme scheme with open rhythm. C) Strict rhythm. D) No regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) No regular pattern of rhythm and rhyme. 8. The word choice of an author A) Quatrain. B) Tone. C) Diction. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diction. 9. How fast or slow a poem is read. A) Pace. B) Tone. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pace. 10. The following is an example of:With his ebony hands on each ivory keyHe made that poor piano moan with melody. A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Hyperbole. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 11. Sounds that are repeated at the ends of lines in a poem. A) End Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Hyperbole. D) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 12. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:Alliteration A) Exaggerated statement to highten effect. B) Words that mimic sounds. C) Implied comparison between 2 unlike things-NO like or as. D) Repreated words at the beginning or within words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repreated words at the beginning or within words. 13. This is the pattern of end rhyme in a poem. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhyme plan. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 14. A comparison that does use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. The following line is an example of which sound device? "Poetry is old, ancient, goes far back." A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 16. Hard to catch or discover A) Obscure. B) Evidence. C) Elusive. D) Argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elusive. 17. Words whose final syllables have the exact same sounds A) Complete rhyme. B) Partial rhyme. C) Enclosed rhyme. D) Alternate rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete rhyme. 18. Refers to the broad category of poetry that concerns feelings and emotion. This distinguishes it from two other poetic categories:epic and dramatic A) Lyric poem. B) Ballad. C) Soliloquy. D) Villanelles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric poem. 19. Which of the following terms is defined as:language that creates a mental picture by appealing to the senses A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Meter. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 20. The speaker of the poem is ..... A) The person who wrote the poem (the "author"). B) Lines grouped together in a poem. C) The voice or the object telling us the poem. D) A free verse poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The voice or the object telling us the poem. ← 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