This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 466 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 466 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. ..... is a literary device that refers to the use of symbols in a literary work. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 2. What is the correct spelling of the word that means having or ending with a sound that corresponds to another. A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme. C) Stay here. D) Raheem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. The shingles on the shack shook in the storm winds like scared children. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 4. The use ofwords that vividly describe a sound (the word mimics the sound)so that readers can clearly "hear" themis called A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 5. Looks like a rhyme on paper (move-love, rain-again) A) Resonating. B) Masculine. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Near Rhyme/Slant Rhyme/Half Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye Rhyme. 6. What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Sensory Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory Language. 7. What is the type of literature where words are carefully chosen to create a certain effect? A) Prose. B) Poetry. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetry. 8. This sentence is an example of what: "Her voice was music to my ears." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 9. The cloud was as fluffy as cotton candy! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. A reference to someone or something famous. A) Allusion. B) Analogy. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 11. Max is a pig when he eats. This is an example of a/an: A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 12. Poem with 14 lines, either Italian or Shakesperean in format A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Lyric poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sonnet. 13. Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out! This is an example of ..... A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Side Rhyme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End Rhyme. 14. A literary ballad is a written tradition. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. The definition of the term "repetition" is ..... A) Descriptive language that uses the 5 senses. B) Words that begin with the same sound near each other. C) The use of a sound, word, or phrase multiple times in a poem. D) The atmosphere or feeling the poem creates for the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The use of a sound, word, or phrase multiple times in a poem. 16. Provide an example of a famous poem that uses metaphor extensively. A) Beowulf. B) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. C) The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. D) The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. 17. What is a dialogue? A) Group of words that express a complete thought. B) Sentences that are grouped together. C) Words of sentences that quote what a person has said. D) Major division of a novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Words of sentences that quote what a person has said. 18. A figure of speech in which an object, animal, or idea is given human characteristics A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. "The giant tree was ablaze with the orange, red, and yellow leaves that were beginning to make their descent to the ground." is an example of ..... A) Arson. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 20. The repetition of identical vowel sounds in different words in close proximity. Example:deep green sea. A) Assonance. B) Ballad. C) Blank verse. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. ← 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