This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 475 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 475 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. One thousand stampeding bison thundering across the plainsCouldn't drown out the sound of my heart beating for you. This is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Pathetic fallacy. C) Synonyms. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 3. "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard." This line has ..... in it. A) Internal rhyme. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 4. Roses are Red, Violets are blue, My friend's name is Ted, and he is taller than you. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem above? A) A, B, A, B. B) A, A, A, C. C) A, A, B, B. D) A, B, C, D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A, B, A, B. 5. Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically but pronounced differently. Example:bear/fear, dough/cough/through/bough A) Eye rhyme:. B) Slant rhyme:. C) Rhyme scheme:. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye rhyme:. 6. A brief, sometimes indirect, reference in a text to a person, place, or thing A) Allusion. B) Cutting. C) Personification. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 7. The combination of assonance and consonance ..... The cat in the hat chased the rate. A) Rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 8. Repeating the same sounds at the ends of words or lines A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 9. What word means having or ending with a sound that corresponds to another. A) Rhyme. B) Connotation. C) Personification. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 10. My brothers are stingrays, calm until provoked. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. When a writer refers to another character, place, thing, or literary work is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. Repetition of the same beginning consonant sounds A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of a verse. A) Alliteration (aliteracion). B) Internal rhyme (rima interna). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme (rima interna). 14. A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other (such as: "bittersweet" ) A) Oxymoron. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 15. A group of lines in a poem, much like a paragraph in prose A) Stanza. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 16. When talking about poetry, what is meter? A) The length of the poem. B) The "beat" of the poem. C) The sound of the poem. D) The look of the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The "beat" of the poem. 17. A magazine article is an example of ..... A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose. 18. Descriptive language that asks you to use your senses when creating a picture in your head A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Couplet. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 19. What do a quatrain, sestet, tercet and a quintain all have in common? A) Rhytm's. B) Couplet's. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza's. 20. Poetry without a rhyming structure or a particular rhythm. A) Free verse. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. ← 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