This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 356 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 356 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of these shows onomatopoeia? A) Toni's Terrific Tacos. B) We wish you a merry ChristmasWe Wish you a merry Christmas We wish you a meer Christmas and a happy new year!. C) The bright sun danced on the snow, making the ground sparkle like diamonds. D) The honking and beeping and screeching of the traffic gave me a headache. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The honking and beeping and screeching of the traffic gave me a headache. 2. The pattern of rhyme within a stanza or poem ..... steeple a ..... town b ..... people a ..... down b A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 3. Which is the correct defintion of Sonnet? A) A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. B) A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. C) An exact rhyme (rather than rhyming vowel sounds, as with assonance) within a line of poetry. D) The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds beginning words, in close proximity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. 4. What is imagery in poetry? A) Creates word pictures through the senses. B) Words that imitate sounds. C) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) A pattern of beats and stresses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Creates word pictures through the senses. 5. Extreme exaggeration; can't possibly be true A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Cesura. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 6. Which of the following contains an alliteration? A) The snaked slithered slyly through the tall grasses. B) Life is a journey. C) He stiffened in anger. D) The sub rose to greet the day. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The snaked slithered slyly through the tall grasses. 7. The "tone of voice" a work seems to project; poet's attitude towards subject and audience A) Diction. B) Voice. C) Tone. D) Poetic device. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 8. Hyperbole is an exaggeration used for emphasis or humor. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. A type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds in both words are identical A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. E) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exact Rhyme. 10. A direct comparison of two items without using like or as A) Limerick. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Their hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Smoke Detector Warned Family The Greens were quite startled to hear the piercing scream of their smoke detector coming from inside their house on Sunday afternoon. "We were having a family barbecue in the backyard, so our first thought was that the smoke from the grill had somehow set off the alarm, " Larry Green recounted. "The smoke turned out to be from a batch of brownies that my mom was baking for dessert, " Rachel Green explained. What type of figurative language is used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Lyrical poem A) A poem that expresses emotion. B) A poem that tells a story. C) The message about life that a poem seems to send. D) The feeling or atmosphere a poem sends off. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem that expresses emotion. 13. Spondee A) Group of lines making up a single unit; like a paragraph in prose. B) Stanza of 6 lines. C) Foot consisting of 2 syllables. D) Foot consisting of a stress followed by an unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot consisting of 2 syllables. 14. What is the term for the person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself in a poem? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 15. Language arranged in lines w/ a regular rhythm & often rhyme scheme. A) Imagery. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Poetry. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 16. Which term describes the way a line of poetry 'runs on' to the next line without punctuation? A) Assonance. B) Sibilance. C) Enjambment. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 17. A short phrase or sentence in one row, or line of a stanza A) Theme. B) Central Idea. C) Plot. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 18. The fact of two things being seen or placed close to the contrasting effect A) Paradox. B) Analogy. C) Juxtaposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 19. ..... is how to tell each stanza apart. A) Indent. B) Line breaks. C) Numbers. D) What is a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line breaks. 20. Figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole, or whole to designate a part. Example: "All hands on deck" means all men, not just their hands. A) Synecdoche. B) Trope. C) Metonymy. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. ← 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