This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 65 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 65 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The giving of human qualities to objects, animals, or things. A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Ballad. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 2. A pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Closed. D) Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 3. What form of poetry tells a story, may rhyme, has a story plot, setting, and characters? A) Free Verse. B) Humorous. C) Narrative. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Narrative. 4. Compare unlike things (using like or as) A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. It is the repetition of similar vowel sounds A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 6. Words that end in the same sound, end rhyme A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 7. A poem narrating a story in short stanzas, typically an unknown author; passed on orally through generations as part of folk culture A) Ballad. B) Elegy. C) Lyric. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 8. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem A) Rhythm. B) Enjambment. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 9. Single unit of language into which a poem is divided A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 10. What figurative language is used in this sentence? Gilbert and Gus gulped and gasped for air as they fought over the squeaky toy. A) Rhyme. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 11. Simile or Metaphor? My brother was boiling mad. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. An object used on stage or screen by actors during a performance or screen production A) Stage. B) Scene. C) Props. D) Crew. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Props. 13. Which figure of speech is exemplified by the phrase 'the wind blew'? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 14. Assigning human qualities to something that is not human. A) Hyperbole. B) Mood. C) Diction. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. The emotional associations a word evokes A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Formal tone. D) Informal tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 16. The repetition of the initial consonant sound in two or more neighboring words or syllables A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 17. Which is the correct definition of Assonance? A) When a phrase, a clause, or a sentence in a line of poetry doesn't finish at the line break but spills over into the next line. B) The repetition of similar vowels in successive words. C) Way of organizing and counting beats in poetry or music. D) Boom! Buzz! Oink! When a word imitates the sound it refers to. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The repetition of similar vowels in successive words. 18. A Paradox is..... A) A contradictory idea that may actually be true. B) A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. C) A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poems. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A contradictory idea that may actually be true. 19. When contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true A) Metaphor. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irony. 20. An eight-line stanza A) Limerick. B) Octave. C) Paradox. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Octave. ← 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