This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 371 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 371 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the term for when two words within a single line of poetry rhyme? A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanza. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme. 2. Imagery is language that appeals everything EXCEPT A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Taste. D) Driving ability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Driving ability. 3. Which term means:prose that resembles poetry A) Rondeau. B) Tanka. C) Prose poem. D) Sonnet. E) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose poem. 4. A poem for the dead A) Ballad. B) Elegy. C) Free verse. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 5. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the ends of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 6. What is simile? A) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. B) Direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as. C) A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line. The first end sound is represented as the letter a, the second b, etc. The ending of certain lines rhyme with each other. D) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. 7. A seven-line stanza A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain (Quintain, Quintet). C) Sestet (Sextet). D) Octave (Octet). E) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Seven. 8. Rhyme scheme helps keep ..... and can make the poem fun. A) Rhymes. B) The poem going. C) Me awake. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 9. Which term means:a literary work idealizing the rural life A) Ode. B) Lay. C) Pastoral. D) Idyll. E) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pastoral. 10. Which answer correctly displays two words that would create a rhyme? A) Cat, dog. B) Cat, bat. C) Cat, sit. D) Cat, melt. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cat, bat. 11. Gives human characteristics to inanimate objects A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Alliteration can be defined as: A) A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature. B) The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words. C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. D) The main idea or theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. 13. Author repeats a word, line, or phrase for the emphasis. A) Word order. B) Voice or POV. C) Repetition. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 14. Comparison of unlike things using the words LIKE or AS A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. What is the term for repetition of a pattern of syllables or sounds in a line, stanza, or poem? A) Pearl. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 16. Definition:the repetition of the same sound at the starts of words or phrases that are close together. A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. A poem of serious reflection, typically about death. A) Ballad. B) Eulogy. C) Ode. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elegy. 18. Grouping of two lines of the same metrical length that rhyme A) Poetry. B) Sonnet. C) Couplet. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 19. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of line of poetry. A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 20. An intensely passionate verse or section of verse, usually of love or praise A) Rhapsody. B) Cutting. C) Pastoral. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhapsody. ← 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