This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 32 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 32 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What do you call an expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says. A) Haiku. B) Metaphor. C) Poem. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 2. The life lesson that can be learned from the poem; the overall message A) Theme. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. E) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 3. Mary, Mary, quite contrary ..... A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 4. A stanza is made up of ..... A) Multiple lines in a poem. B) Rhythm. C) Different types of alliteration. D) Paragraphs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Multiple lines in a poem. 5. The use of any element of language ..... a sound, word, phrase or sentence-used more than once. A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Couplet. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 6. A writing technique in which a word or phrase is repeated A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 7. Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis A) Repetition. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 8. The creating and artistic intelligence that we recognize behind any speaker A) Voice. B) Synecdoche. C) Idiom. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 9. Descriptive words or phrases that recreate sensory experiences for the reader. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Imagery. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 10. An exaggeration that cannot possibly be true and is not meant to be taken literally A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. This is the use of words to imitate sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. Is this line written in iambic pentameter? One must have a mind of winter A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 13. An ..... means a poem says less than it means. It can sometimes coexist with verbal irony. A) Synecdoche. B) Understatement. C) Hyperbole. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 14. The repetition of a consonant sound at any place in a series of words. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 15. "O my Love is like a red, red rose" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. The author's use of description and words to create pictures in the reader's mind is called ..... A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Rhyming words. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 17. What is an example of a hyperbole? A) BOOM!. B) Beautiful as a flower. C) My backpack weighs a ton!. D) You are a jem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My backpack weighs a ton!. 18. Symbol A) A two line stanza, which may or may not rhyme. B) The repetition of vowel sounds. C) A figure or speech where are person or thing stands for some other idea. D) A poem that tells a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A figure or speech where are person or thing stands for some other idea. 19. A direct comparison of two UNLIKE things. (Ex. All the world's a stage, and we are merely players" or "His tears were a river flowing from her cheeks" A) Rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. AABBCC A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Rhyme scheme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. ← 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