This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 377 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 377 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many poems (of the portfolio!) are due by Friday, Nov. 19? A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 2. Sonnet that has octave/ABBA ABBA, and sestet/CDE CDE A) Peruvian. B) Shakespearian. C) Edwardian. D) Petrarchan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Petrarchan. 3. This is using the 5 senses to describe things. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 4. Couplets are? A) Two lines of a verse that usually have a rhyming pattern. B) 4 lines of a song dealing with animals. C) Items attached to the sleeves of a dressy button down shhirt. D) 8 lines of a verse that never rhyme. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two lines of a verse that usually have a rhyming pattern. 5. A figure of speech where exaggeration is used for effect. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Stanza. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. Similes and metaphors are poetic devices. What does this mean? A) Every poem has at least one simile or metaphor. B) They are literary techniques commonly found in poetry. C) They are rarely used in writings other than poetry. D) They are tricks poets use to fool their readers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are literary techniques commonly found in poetry. 7. The repetition of sounds in poetry A) Rhythm. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 8. What is the definition of inverted word order? A) The "normal" order of the words in a poem is "mixed up" to create an effect. B) A comparison not using like, as, or than which states something is something else. C) A line or phrase of poetry that repeats. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The "normal" order of the words in a poem is "mixed up" to create an effect. 9. A tribute to someone or something of great importance to the poet A) Ode. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 10. When a sentence in a poem continues beyond the end of a line, that is called ..... A) A couplet. B) Enjambment. C) Apostrophe. D) An oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 11. Leaving a car wash at the beginning of a downpour. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 12. The pattern of end rhyme A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 13. The repetition of syllable sounds is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm/meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 14. ..... is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 15. The poet's message to the reader A) Main idea. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Author's purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 16. This occurs when one line ends with a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line A) Enjambment. B) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 17. True of False:The speaker and the poet are the same person. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. A phrase that puts an image in your head, like "the rain poured down, drenching the field and creating small swimming holes for all the animals" A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 19. What is allusion? A) Repeated consonant sounds. B) Repeated vowel sounds. C) Feelings expressed. D) Reference to something popular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reference to something popular. 20. That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds! A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. ← 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