This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 393 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 393 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of sounds st the beginning of words. A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. What states that one thing is something else? Example:Life is a highway. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 3. The angry, gray waves slammed along the sandy shore as the squawking seagulls soared through the hot summer sky. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 4. Repeated words, phrases, images, or structures A) Repetition. B) Verse. C) Stanza. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. Gives the qualities of a person to an animal, object, or idea A) Imagery. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Idiom. E) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. Rhymed lyric poem consisting of 14 lines A) Sonnet. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 7. The regular pattern of words that END with the same sounds is ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Repetition. C) Sound devices. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 8. Which poetry form is defined by its lack structure and has no specific pattern? A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Free verse. D) Concrete poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 9. When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, but start with different consonant sounds A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Alphabet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 10. What type of rhyme is used in the following example?"Tiger, Tiger, burning bright, In the forests of the night" A) Slant rhyme. B) Exact rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exact rhyme. 11. What device is used in this sentence?"Fruit is fuel for a healthy body." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. What is the definition of a stanza in poetry? A) A type of literature. B) A comparison of two dissimilar things using like or as. C) A group of lines in a poem. D) The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A group of lines in a poem. 13. Identify which poetic device is used below:The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 14. Hesitating or doubting. A) Dubious. B) Podiatry. C) Calamity. D) Banished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dubious. 15. Inverted syntax is ..... A) A regular sentence structure. B) A type of punctuation that indicates to the reader to pause and reflect. C) A reversal in the expected order of words. D) An incomplete sentence that is missing either the subject or the verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A reversal in the expected order of words. 16. The one who is narrating the poem A) Speaker. B) Verse. C) Stanza. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 17. What is the importance of repetition? A) To make comparisons. B) To give hints about the future. C) To use imagery. D) To emphasize the word or phrase. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To emphasize the word or phrase. 18. How many syllables? Winter A) 1. B) 2. C) 3. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 19. Poetry that does not follow regular patterns of rhyme or rhythm is called ..... A) Tone. B) Couplet. C) Alliteration. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 20. A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. ← 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