This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 367 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 367 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which sentence contains the simile ..... A) Her face was as a red as a rose. B) John played basketball on Tuesday. C) Susan is going to the mall. D) Paul wants a new bike. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Her face was as a red as a rose. 2. What does "refrain" mean? A) Rhymes at the end of lines. B) A repeated sound, word, or phrase. C) Something that stands for something else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A repeated sound, word, or phrase. 3. When you make a claim you must have concrete details or ..... A) Recommend, hint at, imply. B) (to make) an educated guess. C) Words or phrases that show text evidence. D) Sources of information; such as a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words or phrases that show text evidence. 4. Features standard English and formal grammar A) Informal tone. B) Formal tone. C) Lyric. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Formal tone. 5. True or False:Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Treasure Island (an excerpt) by Robert Louis Stevenson I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow-a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man, his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulder of his soiled blue coat, his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails, and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white. I remember him looking round the cover and whistling to himself as he did so, and then breaking out in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards. What does the IMAGERY used in the first paragraph tell the reader about the captain? A) He is in need of first aid. B) He is likely carrying treasure in his sea-chest. C) He has grown frail and tired with old age. D) He has had a rough and adventurous life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He has had a rough and adventurous life. 7. Darla is a star of our family. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 8. The repetition of vowel sounds that are close together is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 9. The most important point in a line of poetry; the breath or pause at the end of each row of words; used along with or instead of punctuation marks, a line break is a deliberate choice by the poet and its use can affect a poem's sound, meaning, and appearance A) Stanza. B) Line break. C) Terminal rhyme. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line break. 10. My body breaks and it breaks and I do not.My body splits, and I make home around its borders. A) Allusion. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 11. To give human traits and characteristics to an animal, object, or idea. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. A word that has the same spelling both forward and backward such as civic is known as A) Reversal. B) Spoonerism. C) Palindrome. D) Feminine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palindrome. 13. The way a poem is arranged on the page is called its A) Arrangement. B) Organization. C) Style. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 14. A figure of speech that is composed of exaggeration A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. Line of poetry with five sets of stressed and unstressed syllables, widely used by Shakespeare A) Iambic pentameter. B) Quatrain. C) Free verse. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Iambic pentameter. 16. The voice behind the poem A) Author. B) Illustrator. C) Narrator. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speaker. 17. Which type of figurative language compares using "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 18. A poem written to celebrate a wedding is a/an A) Epithalamus. B) Encomium. C) Threnody. D) Karanach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epithalamus. 19. Groups of words in a poem A) Poem. B) Simile. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 20. Three-line verse form, seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. ← 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