This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 379 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 379 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A paragraph in a poem is called a ..... ? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 2. "sight, sound, touch, taste, smell" are the five senses that come along with: A) Tone. B) Metaphors. C) Imagery. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 3. Repetition of initial consonant sound A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Nomenclature. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 4. A group of lines in poetry is called a A) Sonnet. B) Stanza. C) Pattern. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 5. Comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as" or "seems" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Connotation. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Which term means the repetition of vowel sounds in words? A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 7. A humorous poem that has five lines, an "AABBA" rhyming pattern and a specific rhythm is called a ..... A) Limerick. B) Cinquain. C) Diamante. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 8. The stressed and unstressed beats within a poem A) Rhyme. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Meteor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 9. The sixteenth president of the United States (1861-1865), who was commander-in-chief of the Union troops during the American A) Donald Trump. B) Abraham Lincoln. C) Barack Obama. D) Richard Nixon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abraham Lincoln. 10. When one line of poetry ends without a pause or punctuation and then continues to the next line. A) Symbol. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) Eulogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 11. Which of the following defines PENTAMETER? A) A line of poetry containing five syllables. B) A work of literature that divides into five sections. C) A story consisting of five conflicts. D) A verse with five poetic feet per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A verse with five poetic feet per line. 12. A comparison that DOESN'T use like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form. A) Poetry. B) Stanza. C) Theme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 14. In a poem, what do you call a group of words on one line? It's usually numbered. A) Form. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 15. Shows the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. Examples of rhyme pattern are:1 & 3 rhyme and 2 & 4 rhyme A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Pattern. 16. Repetition of beginning sounds A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. A figure of speech in which words and phrases with opposite meanings are balanced against each other. An example of antithesis is "To err is human, to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A) Accent. B) Antithesis. C) Anapest. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antithesis. 18. Choose the onomatopoeia. A) Santa slipped on the slick floor. B) BANG!. C) He was as slow as a turtle. D) My life is a tornado right now. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BANG!. 19. A reference, usually to another literary work A) Enjambment. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. A figure of speech that uses a word or phrase to describe something that it does literally apply to in order to showa similarityis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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