This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 484 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 484 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Type of poetry that is meant to be performed A) Spoken word poetry. B) Free verse poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spoken word poetry. 2. Giving inanimate objects human qualities, such as "the sun kissed her cheeks on the hot summer day" is known as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 3. A group of words in poetry that may or may not be a complete sentence A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Ode. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 4. Repeating similar sounds of consonants, not necessarily at the beginning of the words A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Enjambment. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 5. Which of the following is the definition of tone? A) The voice the reader uses when reading a poem out loud. B) The overall mood, attitude, or feeling of the poem. C) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. D) When an author uses a word that mimics a sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The overall mood, attitude, or feeling of the poem. 6. ..... is a technique in which the normal order of words is reversed. This is often done to maintain a particular rhyme scheme or meter, and sometimes for artistic effect. A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Pun. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion. 7. A reference to another text, historical event, art, etc. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 8. Not-rhyming lines that follow the natural rhythms of speech A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 9. Using word with the same or similar ending sounds A) Personification. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 10. A poem that sounds similar to everyday speech (with no rhyme or meter) is called ..... A) Free verse. B) Captive verse. C) Acrostic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 11. ..... is the repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 12. The rhyme scheme of a sonnet is ..... A) THE FATHER. B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C) AABB CCDD EEFF. D) No rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. 13. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem which is labeled with letters of the alphabet A) Rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 14. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas that is meant to be sung A) Ballad. B) Sonnet. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 15. "He could hear the howling of the approaching storm and see the debris thrown around the farm." This is an example of ..... ? A) Irony. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Sensory Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sensory Imagery. 16. Plays are also known as dramas. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between of the poem. A) Verse. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 18. "the blue bells were broken by Billy Brown" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. Over-exaggeration for effect. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Motif. C) Hyperbole. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 20. A piece of creative writing that uses both speech and sound, and usually has rhyme and rhythm. A) Novel. B) Essay. C) Short Story. D) Poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poem. ← 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