This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 404 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 404 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The wind shook me like a rag doll" is an example of A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. Repeating pattern of sounds, words, or phrases; often used for emphasis A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 3. Syllables are pronounced softer A) Unstressed Syllables. B) Stressed Syllables. C) Foot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unstressed Syllables. 4. The message; the general truth about life, the central idea A) Theme. B) Setting. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 5. Repeating sounds, words, phrases, lines, or even entire stanzas. Used as a sound device to underscore the meaning of certain words, to enhance rhythm, or add to the musical quality of the work. ( "O, my love is like a red, red rose, ..... And fare thee well, my only love, and fare thee well a while!" ) A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Repeating. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 6. What is 17 syllables, 3 lines and a Japanese poem A) Refrain. B) Haiku. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 7. Select the metaphor below? A) The best part about music class is that you can bang on the drum. B) You were as brave as a lion. C) Love is a battlefield. D) The blanket wrapped its arms around me. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love is a battlefield. 8. The cactus saluted any visitor brave enough to travel the scorched land. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 9. Gives human qualities to something that is not human A) Personification. B) Theme. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 10. A line that is repeated, at regular intervals, in different stanzas is ..... A) A couplet. B) Per room. C) End rhyme. D) A refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A refrain. 11. Uses words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader A) Imagery. B) Sensory language. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 12. An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning andsignificance. A) Pun. B) Synecdoche. C) Importance. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 13. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung. A) Limerick. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Prose. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 15. Which of the following is NOT an onomatopoeia? A) YOOOO!. B) HEY!. C) POWW!. D) WAM!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HEY!. 16. A direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words "like" or "as" in the comparison. It often uses "is" in the comparison. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. A haiku has exactly 5 lines. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. The use of words which imitate its sound A) Metaphor. B) Interjection. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. What are rhyming words at the end of two or more lines of a poem? A) Line breaks. B) Lyrical poem. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 20. A song like poem that tells a story, featuring a specific rhyme scheme is called ..... A) Ballad. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. ← 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