This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 372 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 372 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of words to create pictures in your mind A) Irony. B) Theme. C) Imagery. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 2. A unit or group of four lines of verse. A) Couplet. B) Ballad. C) Quatrain. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quatrain. 3. The author's attitude toward the subject at hand A) Tone. B) Hyperbole. C) Syntax. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. Reference to a statement, a person, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture. A) Simile. B) Connotation. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 5. Anagram A) A metaphor that extends throught the work. B) An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified). C) Three line stanza. D) A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another. 6. When a word imitates the sound of something, it is called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Figurative language. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 7. Repetition of a consonant sound anywhere in words used closely to one another A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 8. Which of the following is a metaphor? A) The crash of the dishes sent her packing!. B) My sister eats like a horse!. C) My hands were ice cubes when I came inside. D) The cat smiled at me as he stole my chair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) My hands were ice cubes when I came inside. 9. An audible pause internal to a line, usually in the middle. (An audible pause at the end of a line is called an end-stop.) The French alexandrine, Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter, and Latin dactylic hexameter are all verse forms that call for a ..... A) Binary. B) Cutting. C) Blank verse. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cutting. 10. Figurative language that appeals to any of the five senses; "mental pictures" created with words A) Imagery. B) Elegy. C) Photographs. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 11. Pair of two lines that contain end rhymes A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Refrain. D) Octave. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 12. A comparison between 2 unlike things that are unrelated, with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbolism. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. Words at the end of lines rhyme A) End Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Exact Rhyme. D) Near Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 14. What is form? A) A division of poetry (a "paragraph). B) The way a poem is arranged on the page. C) Poetry that does not have regular meter or rhyme scheme. D) The repeating of a word, a phrase, or an idea for emphasis or rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The way a poem is arranged on the page. 15. Use of words with repeated begining sounds or syllables A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. An image, sound, action, or other figure that has a symbolic significance, and contributes toward the development of a theme A) Archetype. B) Enjambment. C) Motif. D) Metrics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motif. 17. A three-line stanza A) Refrain. B) Shift. C) Stanza. D) Couplet (Rhyming Couplet). E) Tercet (Triplet). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Tercet (Triplet). 18. A set of syllables in a line of poetry A) Foot. B) Meter. C) Refrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot. 19. Rhyme that occurs within the same line of poetry A) Internal rhyme. B) Foot. C) Meter. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 20. A direct comparison where one thing is considered as another A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. 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