This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 383 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 383 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Spelling how words sound. Crackle, pop, fizz, zoom A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. What term refers to the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Epanalepsis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 3. The English teacher told her class, "You really need to proofread your work, or otherwise people will find you not very credible." The teacher's assignment had 12 typos in it. A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 4. Which term refers to an exaggerated statement used for emphasis? A) Hyperbole. B) Parallelism. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 5. In this poem, what matters is the number of syllables. A) Haiku. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 6. The voice or persona of the poem is called the- A) Author. B) Writer. C) Speaker. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 7. "They covered themselves with dust and glory." A) Zeugma. B) Chiasmus. C) Paradox. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Zeugma. 8. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 9. A figure of speech that does not use like or as to compare two unlike things A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is an example of which literary term? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. A single line of words in a poem. A) Line. B) Internal Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 12. Occurs when lines of poetry end in words that are spelled alike but pronounced differently-appeals to the eye, rather than the ear A) Rhyme Scheme:End. B) Rhyme Scheme:Internal. C) Rhyme Scheme:Slant. D) Rhyme Scheme:Eye. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme:Eye. 13. A pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause A) Apostrophe. B) Couplet. C) Enjambment. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting. 14. Serenity sells seashells by the seashore is an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 15. The creation of words by describing sounds is called A) Onomatopoeia. B) Stanza. C) Couplet. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 16. A long heroic poem A) Ode. B) Epic. C) Sonnet. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 17. "Midnight Sun" is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Oxymoron. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 18. The occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. A) Assonance. B) Verse. C) Meter. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 19. Sentence of poetry numbered in poems A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Sentence. D) Paraphrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 20. Measure of rhythm A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Iamb. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. ← 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