This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 392 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 392 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; similar to rhythmic beats in music A) Sound devices. B) Alliteration. C) Rhythm. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 2. Words that express more than their literal meaningEx. (simile, metaphor, personification, etc.) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Figurative Language. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 3. The following is an example of which sound device?The proud catHad a beautiful hat A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming Couplet. 4. All I know is my heart is a ghost townis an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. Which of the following is defined as-as a stretch of the truth? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Meter. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exaggeration. 6. Repetition of consonant sounds within a word A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Paradox. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 7. This is a comparison using like or as. A) Simile. B) Tone. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. Another word for poetry A) Verse. B) Poetry. C) Refrain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 9. Language layered with meaning by word images and figures of speech; it departs from literal meaning. A) Persona. B) Imagery. C) Figurative language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 10. Not an exact rhyme, not an assonant rhyme, often ends with the same consonant sound (dear-door, blame-dream) A) Near Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Half Rhyme. B) Masculine. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Half Rhyme. 11. A phrase with a meaning different than its literal meaning A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Idiom. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 12. The associations and emotional overtones attached to a word beyond its literal definition A) Connotation. B) Diction. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 13. The language that uses sensory details to help a reader recreate what the writer is describing, in his or her own mind. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 14. The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. A) Couplet. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 15. A group of words established as usage as having a meaning not duducible from those of the individual words. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 16. Made up of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Foot/feet. B) Line. C) Assonance. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot/feet. 17. The repetition of vowel sounds that are close together. A) Assonance. B) Allusion. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. When a poem is written with a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (To the piano players out there) A) Key. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 19. What do the red lines show? In my sleep I dream In my sleep I believe In my sleep I mourn A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 20. The meter that Shakepeare used u/u/ A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Iambic. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Iambic. ← 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