This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 320 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 320 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "As straight as an arrow" is an example of what? A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Which form of figurative language compares two things using like or as? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Symbol. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words A) Sound device. B) Assonance. C) Repetition. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 4. The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Dealing destruction's devastating doom. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Ballad. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. The gap that separates stanzas. A) Line. B) Line Break. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line Break. 6. The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry known as a foot A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Ballad. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 7. An arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually 4 or more, that sometimes have a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme is a: A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 8. Pleasant, harmonious sound A) Euphony. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphony. 9. "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven, Went envying her and me-" These lines are an example of ..... in the poem A) Assonance. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Suffocated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. The use of words or phrases whose sounds suggest their meanings. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 11. An "allusion" is a reference to what? A) A well-known place. B) A well-known event. C) A well-known work of art or literature. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 12. Give an example of alliteration in a poem. A) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. B) Sally sells seashells by the seashore. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. D) Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 13. Comparison between two things using like or as A) Symbol. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. Metaphors compare using like or as A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 15. Who is the speaker in a poem? A) The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. B) The audience of a poem. C) The author of a poem. D) The subject of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. 16. What is the definition of the term:Near/Slant Rhyme? A) Rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry. B) The rhyming words have the exact same pattern of spelling or pronunciation. C) Rhyming words have similar, but not perfect patterns of sounds. D) Rhyme within a line of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming words have similar, but not perfect patterns of sounds. 17. What is the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Lyrics. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 18. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Haiku. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. Any of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which we perceive the world A) Senses. B) Poetry. C) Verse. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Senses. 20. Simile or Metaphor:My sister is like an angel in my life. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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