This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 416 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 416 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The flames danced in the fire" is an example of: A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 2. Using words that help readers "see" by creating pictures or images in their mind. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Message. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 3. A poem in the shape of the subject. A) Concrete. B) Metaphor. C) Haiku. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Concrete. 4. A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. A) Anaphora. B) Analogy. C) Antithesis. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 5. "I'm so hungry I could eat a pound of bacon" is an example of: A) Tone. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. Huge exaggerations that are obviously not true. A) Idiom. B) Line. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 7. The direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words/phrases/clauses for the purpose of contrast ex) sink or swim, to be or not to be A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antithesis. 8. What is the end of one line and the beginning of a new line; creates meaning in a poem? A) Line Break. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line Break. 9. 3 line poem with a fixed number of syllables:five syllables in the first and third lines and seven syllables in the second line (5-7-5) A) Haiku. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 10. Gives human traits or feelings to things that are not human A) Oxymoron. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of the words. (the first letter) A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. The repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. The manner of speaking about one sense in terms of another. A) Figurative language. B) Symbolism. C) Synesthesia. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synesthesia. 14. Withered and withdrawn, without will, Will winced as the wicked whispered. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. "The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM in the air." is an example of A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 16. "A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm, " is an example of ..... A) Consonance. B) Dissonance. C) Rhythm. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 17. A poem with 14 lines, iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) English sonnet. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English sonnet. 18. A group of lines that work together to express a central idea A) Stanza. B) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 19. Which of the following definitions does NOT describe imagery? A) Words that appeal to a reader's senses. B) Uses sensory details to help the reader imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. C) The main idea of a story. D) Helps the reader visualize what is going on in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The main idea of a story. 20. What does "Lines" mean in poetry? A) Flow of the beat of the poem. B) Repeating words, phrases, or lines of poetry. C) Flow of the beat of a poem. D) Group of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Group of words. ← 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