This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 362 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 362 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The snow felt like daggers against my skin. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Line Break. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. A two line unit in a poem, typically rhyming A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Stanza. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 3. What's the meaning of this hyperbole? "Shawn would move mountains for Angela." A) Shawn and Angela like to climb mountains together. B) Shawn paints pictures of mountain scenes. C) Shawn would do anything for Angela. D) Angela is really pretty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shawn would do anything for Angela. 4. Two consecutive rhyming lines of poetry A) Persona. B) Couplet. C) Euphony. D) To rap. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 5. The recurring pattern of strong and weak syllabic stresses A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 6. A ballad is similar to a ..... A) Haiku. B) Song. C) Essay. D) Memoir. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Song. 7. A direct comparison between two unlike things that does NOT use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. What form of poetry expresses strong feelings, can rhyme, and is songlike? A) Free Verse. B) Humorous. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lyric. 9. Two words that have some sound in common but do not rhyme exactly A) Slant rhyme. B) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme. 10. Unstressed syllables have more emphasis than stressed syllables. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. Using the same words or phrases over and over A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 12. Rhyme that occurs within the same line in a poem or song lyrics A) Internal Rhyme. B) External Rhyme. C) Structural Rhyme. D) Symbolic Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhyme. 13. "The holy mountains flow up from the earth / The smoke of sacrifice flows up from the earth / The eagle and the wild swan fly up from the earth." ~~ MEDEA A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Incremental repetition. D) Epistrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epistrophe. 14. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Marcello Maltese are examples of names with ..... A) Alliteration. B) Internal rhyme. C) Personification. D) Imagery . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. A five line poem with rhymes in line 1, 2 and 5 and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4 is known as a ..... (hint:usually humorous, quirky rhyme scheme) A) Couplet. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 16. "A piece of cake" "on the fence" "at the drop of a hat" are examples of A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Shape. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape. 17. A pair of rhymed lines in a poem. A) Cuties. B) Shipped. C) Couplet. D) Adorable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 18. What words repeated in a poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyming. C) Repetition. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 19. Group of words arranged into a row A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Break. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 20. The snow is a white blanket is an example of a ..... ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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