This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 431 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 431 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words that sound like the noise that they make A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. I balked when I saw the tall cop in the hall; I knew he was looking for you. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 3. Two lines that form a unit in a poem. Usually they rhyme and have the same rhythm. A) Couplet. B) Sonnet. C) Limerick. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 4. Combines two usually contradictory terms in a compressed paradox, as in the word bittersweet or the phrase living death A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Oxymoron. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 5. This type of poem tells a story and is often set to music. A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 6. Poetry that does not follow a particular rhythm or rhyme pattern. A) Cinquain. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 7. The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience. They sometimes appeal to the senses ..... sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch. A) Point of View. B) Ballad. C) Point of View. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. Two accented syllables together (KNICKKNACK)(bring your spondee to the picnic)/two unaccented syllables together (in the) A) Anapest/dactyl. B) Iamb/trochee. C) Couplet. D) Spondee/pyrrhic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spondee/pyrrhic. 9. A Japanese form of poetry, consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 10. An iamb consists of syllables that are A) Unstressed-Stressed-Stressed. B) Unstressed-Stressed. C) Stressed-Unstressed. D) Unstressed-Unstressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unstressed-Stressed. 11. Brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. The physical arrangement of the words on the page, sometimes involving rhyme and rhythm A) Quatrain. B) Form. C) Couplet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Form. 13. ..... is the repetition of final consonant sounds. A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 14. ..... is a single word, a sentence, or part of a sentence. A) Free verse. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 15. Repetition of a consonant sound with words in close proximity. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Juxtaposition. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 16. What type of imagery is this? "The thunder clapped loudly, shaking the house." A) Sight. B) Sound. C) Touch. D) Taste. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 17. I went to the storeTo buy some breadI opened the doorAnd hit my headThis poem is written in ..... A) ABCBRhyme Scheme. B) ABAB Rhyme Scheme. C) ABCD Rhyme Scheme. D) AABB Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB Rhyme Scheme. 18. The positive or negative feelings associated with a word A) Connotation. B) Stanza. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 19. An extreme exaggeration not meant to be taken literally A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. StudentSocial, StudiousReading, Writing, SolvingCurious scholar, Knowledgeable educatorEvaluating, Instructing, ChallengingSmart, GenerousTeacher A) Cinquain. B) Quatrain. C) Haiku. D) Diamante. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diamante. ← 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