This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 54 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 54 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Approximate or Slant rhyme A) A rhyming sound that is not exact. B) A rhyming sound that is not exact. C) A short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rhyming sound that is not exact. 2. A unified group of lines in poetry. A) Stanza. B) Quatrain. C) Seven. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 3. The pattern that the last word in the line of a poem follows A) Simile. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Evaporation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 4. Choose the example that includes alliteration. A) Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef. B) The boy stood taut as a drawn arrow. C) The mutter of the sea. D) The little boy gasped when he touched the cold water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Silent as a shadow, the boy crossed the reef. 5. Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Oxymoron. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. Which example uses a metaphor? A) The long grass attacked her legs and whipped her ankles. B) The smooth silken sound slipped across the shore. C) The grass was long, like the African plains. D) Her words were stinging nettles to his ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her words were stinging nettles to his ears. 7. Reference to a well known person, event, place, literary work or work of art. A) Allegory. B) Allusion. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 8. A term in basketball where one player dunks emphatically on an opposing player A) Crossover. B) Acclaimed. C) Posterizing. D) Feelers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Posterizing. 9. All of the following terms are shown EXCEPT which one?"I looked onwards in awe and said teach me.Teach me to fly through the air like the first flight of pegasus." A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 10. Ex:an olive branch usually represents the idea of peace. A) Hyperbole. B) Imagery. C) Symbol. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 11. An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. For example, a ring represents marriage, faithfulness, and/or a promise. A) Allusion. B) Ballad. C) Theme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 12. Why is personification used in poetry and what effect does it create? A) Personification creates confusion and lack of clarity in poetry. B) Personification creates a more vivid and imaginative description in poetry. C) Personification makes poetry more boring and dull. D) Personification has no effect on the imagery in poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification creates a more vivid and imaginative description in poetry. 13. This literary technique is used in poetry to convey feeling and emotion and to set the mood for the work. It can be achieved through word choice, the grammatical arrangement of words (syntax), imagery, or details that are included or omitted A) Tone. B) Irony. C) Theme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 14. A collection of two or more lines in a poem is called a A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 15. Recurring (over and over again) identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of verse. For example:may, play, lay A) Free. B) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 16. A group of words in a row; the unit of a poem A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Free verse. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 17. ..... is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Rhythm. B) Pattern. C) Meter. D) Beat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 18. A couplet consists of A) 1 line in a stanza. B) 3 lines in a stanza. C) 2 lines in a stanza. D) 4 lines in a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2 lines in a stanza. 19. A person, place or object which has a meaning in itself but suggests other meanings as well A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Poetry. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 20. * A poem that does not follow a consistent rhythm or rhyme* These poems focus on imagery, word choice and figurative language free from traditional structure. A) Couplet. B) Mood. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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