This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 378 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 378 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The most common sound device in poetry A) Mood. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 2. Multi-connector A) Kind of metaphor giving inanimate objects/abstract ideas human characteristics. B) Opposite of asyndeton; the repetition of conjunctions ex) fall & leap & run. C) Play on words that are identical or have similar sounds, but have diverse meanings. D) Pairing of similar sounding words, within/at ends of poetry lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite of asyndeton; the repetition of conjunctions ex) fall & leap & run. 3. A ..... is a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. A) Retention. B) Refrain. C) Repeat. D) Recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 4. A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner A) Ode. B) Mood. C) Elegy. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 5. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Syntax. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 6. What technique shows the repetition of a vowel sound? A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 7. A specific cultural phrase that is not meant to be taken literally A) Idiom. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. Two rhyming lines, one right after the first A) Alliteration. B) Image. C) Couplet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 9. A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter and expresses a single idea A) Hyperbole. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 10. What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. A phrase that doesn't translate literally, such as "mind your ps and qs" A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 12. Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of poetry lines A) Consonance. B) Anaphora. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Anaphora. 13. It makes a comparison using the words "like" or "as" . A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. Poems are made up of ..... which may or may not be sentences. A) Tone. B) Narrative Poems. C) Stanza. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines. 15. The literal dictionary definitions of a word A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Alliteration. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Denotation. 16. A universal idea, lesson, or topic that can be located within the story A) Theme. B) Symbolism. C) Author's purpose. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 17. The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of a line throughout a poem A) Anaphora. B) Simile. C) Assonance. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 18. What is a line that ends with a pause like a period or semicolon? A) Anaphora. B) End-stop. C) Enjambment. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-stop. 19. A division of poetry equivalent to a paragraph in prose. A) Foot. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 20. The repetition of the same consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words: "descending dewdrops, " "luscious lemons." A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Euphony. E) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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