This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 346 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 346 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is the central message or meaning of the poem. A) RHYME. B) METER. C) THEME. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THEME. 2. Giving an animal or object human characteristics A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 3. Two lines back to back that rhyme. Known because it is used by many famous poets and authors. A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Balled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming Couplet. 4. Change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem A) Shift or turn. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shift or turn. 5. Last words of lines have perfect rhyme A) End rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 6. Which of the following is the definition of imagery? A) When an author gives human characteristics to an inanimate object. B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. 7. The trees whispered their songs of spring A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 8. Visually descriptive language..... A) The five senses. B) Imagery. C) Imagination. D) Illusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 9. A line of poetry containing one metrical foot A) Monometer. B) Dimeter. C) Three meters. D) Tetrameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monometer. 10. Rhyming that happens at the end of a line and uses a ABAB pattern is called- A) Rhyme scheme. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 11. Alliteration is the repetition of sounds at the beginning of nearby words. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. A couplet in which the second line relies on subsequent material for complete meaning is a(n) ..... couplet. A) Heroic. B) Closed. C) Open. D) Rhyming. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Open. 13. A lyric poem of fourteen lines, usully with a specific rhyme scheme. Typically the lines are divided into four stanzas. (the first 3 stanzas have 4 lines each and the last has 2 lines) A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Catalog poem. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 14. Using vivid words and descriptions to make a picture in a reader's mind A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 15. Comparison of things that have something in common using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Italics. C) Alliteration. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Similarly. 16. Sensory details A) Appeal to the 5 senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight). B) Are never used in poetry. C) Appeal only to a reader's sense of sight. D) Are only used in short stories and novels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appeal to the 5 senses (taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight). 17. The use of like sounding words or word endings within lines of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 18. The purpose of poetry includes A) Telling a story, sharing an event in history and sharing feelings or emotions. B) Telling a story, sharing food, telling about your sister. C) Making nonsense words, have an easy read. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telling a story, sharing an event in history and sharing feelings or emotions. 19. A funny 5 line poem with AABBA rhyme scheme A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Quintain. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 20. The same letter or sound at the BEGINNING of the word. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Internal rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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