This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 387 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 387 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thingis called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. What figurative language is a reference to something or someone famous? A) Personification. B) Hyperbola. C) Allusion. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 3. The pattern of rhyming words in a poem, labeled with lower-case letters of the alphabet A) Rhyme scheme. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 4. A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea is given human characteristics. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. On the way up north to the cabin, the sunshine sits in my lap all morning. This is an example of: A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 6. Which of the following includes an example of personification? A) The dog ran swiftly across the park. B) The mosquito buzzed around my ear. C) It took forever to finish my test. D) The clouds marched across the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The clouds marched across the sky. 7. "Love is a rose" is an example of ..... A) A simile. B) Hyperbole. C) A metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A metaphor. 8. What is a group of words together on the same row? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 9. My poetry class is not untalented.This is an example of A) Syencdoche. B) Enjambment. C) Anaphora. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litotes. 10. A grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length, metrical form, or rhyme scheme A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 11. The use of a word or object which represents a deeper meaning than the words themselves is known as ..... A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 12. The person telling the poem is known as the ..... A) Narrator. B) Speaker. C) Character. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 13. What is "the sound that suggests its meaning" ? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 14. Close similarity in the final sounds of two or more words or lines of verse A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Verse. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 15. Repetition of CONSONANT SOUNDS at the BEGINNING, MIDDLE or END of at least two words in a line of poetry. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 16. "She kissed my cheek, her lips flipped the switch to the streetlights inside me." This is an example of ..... A) Haiku. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 17. A group of lines in a poem that are separated from each other by a space is called a ..... A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Poem. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 18. Creation of words to mimic a sound A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 19. An indirect reference to a previous work or person, place, or event of historical significance is called what? A) Illusion. B) Voice. C) Allusion. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allusion. 20. Do all poems rhyme? A) Yes always. B) Most of the time. C) No. D) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) No. ← 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