This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 363 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 363 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "the jet is screaming across the sky" is an example of what? A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds, especially in words that are close together. The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls. A) Imagery. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 3. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without connecting words (such as "like" or "as"). A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. Ball/crawl is an example of: A) Meter. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 5. The rhyme scheme of a limerick is ..... A) THE FATHER. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) AABB CCDD EEFF. D) No rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) THE FATHER. 6. A cheap bench seat at a sports arena, typically in an outdoor uncovered stand. A) Banished. B) Bleachers. C) Posterizing. D) Crossover. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bleachers. 7. .....sonnet is rhymed abab, cdcd, efef, gg A) Kentuckian. B) Italian. C) Conservative. D) Shakespearean. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shakespearean. 8. The speaker is: A) The voice of the author. B) The voice of the poem. C) The voice of the subject. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The voice of the poem. 9. This can be the poet OR an invented character who has had an experience that is written about. A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Speaker. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 10. What is being compared in the following line? "Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave." from "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A) Drums and grave. B) Drums and funeral marches. C) Hearts and drums. D) Stout and brave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hearts and drums. 11. Which type of poem is free from any specific rhythm, stanzas, or line measurements? A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 12. The breeze whispered through the trees A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. Using words that sound like their meanings A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 14. Josh acts like a clown to try to impress the ladies This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as is called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. Rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same A) Exact rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate/near rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Approximate/near rhyme. 17. It was raining cats and dogs this morning. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 18. My dog died on my birthday causing me to feel ..... A) Discorded. B) Domioned. C) Dismayed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dismayed. 19. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 20. Five feet in a line of poetry A) Monometer. B) Dimeter. C) Three meters. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pentameter. ← 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