This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 40 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Curiosity killed the cat." displays A) Assonance. B) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 2. A pair of lines in poetry that usually rhyme or have the same meter A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 3. One thing that stand something closely related ..... Ex:Calling the king, "the crown" A) Metonymy. B) Synecdoche. C) Synonym. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 4. When terms contradict each other A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Oxymoron. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 5. A pattern of rhyme in a poem. The last word of each line A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 6. Words or phrases repeated for emphasis. A) Diction. B) Symbolism. C) Poetry. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 7. What is an hyperbole? A) A phrase that means something different from what is literally said. B) Words that imitate sounds made by an object or animal. C) Compares two unlike things using like or as. D) An exaggeration or overstatement made for emphasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An exaggeration or overstatement made for emphasis. 8. What has a rhyme scheme and consistent meter A) Rhymed Verse. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Eye Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhymed Verse. 9. Repetition of the first consonant sound A) Rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a group of words A) Free Verse. B) Meter. C) Limerick. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 11. What is a literary device that demonstrates the long and short patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables? It is like the beat in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Refrain. C) Repetition. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 12. A figure of speech in which something in is named or described as if it were something quite different. A) Assonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 13. The repetition of sounds at the end of lines A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 14. A group of poetic lines corresponding to paragraphs in prose; the meters and rhymes are usually repeating or systematic. A) Sonnet. B) Stanza. C) Stress. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 15. This is a comparison using the words "like" or "as" . A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Is the repetition of initial sounds of words. "The slippery snake slithered slowly" is a sentence that uses alliteration. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Free verse. D) Prose poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. The pattern of long, short, stressed, and unstressed syllables in writing. A) Assonance. B) Rhythm. C) Blank Verse. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 18. Form of poetry that follows fixed rules like specific number of lines, has a regular pattern and rhyme A) Organic form. B) Traditional form. C) Free verse form. D) Concrete form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Traditional form. 19. A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imagination. A) Poetry. B) Fiction. C) Informational text. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. 20. The use of a word whose sound suggests its meaning. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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