This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 446 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 446 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art is A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 2. Love is like a roseSometimes it dies, sometimes it growsBreak-ups are a lot like waterWhen they're ice coldthey are always harder A) Prose. B) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verse. 3. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG This is an example of a ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 4. "I love this game like the winter loves snow" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. A longer direct comparison A) Comparable metaphor. B) Metaphor. C) Longer metaphor. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 6. How a text is organized A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Lines. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 7. A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined is known as ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 8. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line is A) Diction. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 9. Poem that expresses the speaker's personal thoughts or feelings A) Tercet. B) Lyric poem. C) Free verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poem. 10. Repetition of vowel sounds in words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 11. What is the name for a four-line stanza? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 12. "My friend is as sharp as a pencil, " is an example of which poetic device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. "Their woes are over soon. Mine are not. Jason's are not." ~~ MEDEA A) Repetition. B) Incremental repetition. C) Multi-connectors. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incremental repetition. 14. "I'm car sick, open a window I'm car sick, take this pill I'm car sick, rest your eyes I'm car sick, shhh be still" is an example of A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 15. A rhymed pair of lines. A couplet can be written in any rhythmic pattern. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming Couplet. 16. Lines or words that are repeated to stress the importance: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 17. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. Serves the same function as the narrator in a story:to "tell" the poem. A) Speaker. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 19. The repetition of consonant sounds (every sound besides vowel sounds) in neighboring words THAT DO NOT RHYME. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 20. A group of lines arranged together that are set off from other groups by a space A) Form. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. ← 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