This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 60 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A grouped set of lines in a poem, like a paragraph is called ..... A) Per room. B) To see. C) A refrain. D) Lyrics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Per room. 2. What is this an example of? Don't be a Scrooge! A) Allusion. B) Symbolism. C) Voice. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. Rhyme scheme is..... A) The pattern of rhyming. B) Most words in the poem rhyme. C) Only used in sonnets. D) The first word of each line rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of rhyming. 4. Figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person. A) Denotation. B) Point of view. C) Connotation. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 5. Details or ideas from the text that connect back to the main idea A) Supporting details. B) Main idea. C) Gist. D) Summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Supporting details. 6. Giving non-human things human qualities such as feelings or actions A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Rhyme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. Like a paragraph within a poem A) Scheme. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 8. What is an end-stop line? A) The end of a poem. B) The last line a poet ever writes. C) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. D) When a line stops abruptly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When a line of poetry ends with punctuation. 9. The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds within nonrhyming words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. What are the following an examples of? Philadelphia Flyers, Ms. McGuffin, green grass, wonderful win A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds. A) Meter. B) Verse. C) Rhythm. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 12. Recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry A) Rhythm. B) Assonance. C) Free Verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 13. Portraying a person place or thing as being something else is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 14. In the story A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, a penny-pinching and bitter Ebenezer Scrooge values money more than people. What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below? Our neighbor has a reputation for being a Scrooge, so we don't even stop at his door any more when we're fundraising. A) The neighbor is very generous. B) The neighbor is very kind. C) The neighbor is very stingy. D) The neighbor is very jealous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The neighbor is very stingy. 15. I'm so hungry, I could eat a cow! A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 16. A type of literature in which words are carefully chosen to create certain effects. A) Form. B) Tone. C) Poetry. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 17. Author's feeling toward poem subject. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Figurative language. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 18. She soothed her secret sorrow. A) Alliteration. B) Onamatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. "Candy the yams and spice the hams, "This line is an example of ..... A) End line rhyme. B) Approximate/half or slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 20. An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again. A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tercet. ← 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