This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 64 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The lazy river looks less than lovely this late in the day. This sentence is a good example of how an author can use ..... in writing to communicate a point. (hint:it is a type of sound technique) A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. Form poem A) A poem written in the shape of the topic or the theme of the poem. B) A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. C) An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud or through poetry. D) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem written in the shape of the topic or the theme of the poem. 3. Words used to help a reader see an ordinary subject in a different way A) StoryJumper. B) Figurative language. C) Quatrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 4. True or false:Rhythm in poetry is defined as the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem; it can be created using meter, rhymes, alliteration, and refrain. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. Creating a picture with words appealing to any of the five senses A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 6. The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line of a poem to the next, without a pause between words A) Rhyme scheme. B) Quatrain. C) Enjambment. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 7. "Silence your cellphone so it doesn't buzz and beep during A Quiet Place." A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 8. Repetition of initial sounds A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. What is the poetry term for the repetition of vowel sounds? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 10. Use of words, phrases, symbols & ideas to evoke mental images/sense impressions; often characterized by use of figures of speech, elaborate expressions, sound devices, or changes in syntax A) Diction. B) End-Stopped. C) Epiphany. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 11. In Robert Frost's Poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay", this line is an example of: "So Eden sank to grief, /So dawn goes down to day." A) Allusion. B) Oxymoron. C) Denotation. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. A poem that is 14 lines long and that utilizes one of two specific meters (rhythm) and rhyme schemes A) Acrostic. B) Elegy. C) Sonnet. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 13. The repetition of the same or similar stressed sounds in words A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. Which is an example of personification? A) The rain spit down quickly. B) The rain swooshed through the city. C) It rained like cats and dogs. D) The rain made my suit slick, squeaky, and sweaty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The rain spit down quickly. 15. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. A figure of speech that offers an exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a point is called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 17. Simple, narrative verse which tells a story to be sung or recited. Example: "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" A) Ballad. B) Elegy. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 18. A change in tone, mood, setting, subject, or characterization that affect's the poem's meaning A) Rhyme. B) Shift. C) Sonnet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shift. 19. A quatrain is a stanza with ..... A) 3 lines. B) 5 lines. C) 4 lines. D) 1 line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4 lines. 20. The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the wordex. leaf and loaf; roam and room.ex. It was just a little teeter-totter. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. ← 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