This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry Terms – Quiz 81 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 81 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The flowers waltzed in the gentle summer breeze." is an example of A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 2. Using language that creates mental images in order to describe something; includes details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. A) Ballad. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 3. To have put off until a future time. A) Delayed. B) Stopped. C) Denotation. D) Deferred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deferred. 4. Most basic unit of poetry; similar to a sentence in prose A) Stanza. B) Structure. C) Form. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 5. Meter is best defined as..... A) Two rhyming lines. B) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. C) A line or set of lines that is repeated in a poem. D) A word that mimics a sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. 6. Which term is this the definition for:Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines. A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 7. Which type of poem is three lines split into syllables of 5, 7, 5? A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 8. Things are compared by stating that one thing is another. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 9. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Sound device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. Eagles=United Statesdove=peacered roses=lovelions=power and strengthThese are all examples of: A) Allusions. B) Figurative language. C) Symbolism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 11. Iambic pentameter A) A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables followed by 5 unstressed syllables. B) A type of poetry that has AABB rhyme. C) An alternative type of poem to the haiku. D) A poetic meter comprises multiple rhyming lines followed by extensive imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poetic meter that is made up of 5 stressed syllables followed by 5 unstressed syllables. 12. Repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad. A) Prose. B) Pun. C) Quatrain. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 13. Figurative A) The order in which certain words rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. B) Having a meaning that is different from the dictionary definition. C) The feeling that a poem gives to a reader through words, phrases and images. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having a meaning that is different from the dictionary definition. 14. What figurative language device is usedin this sentence? Be ready when opportunity comes knocking at your door. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 15. A figure of speech that offers and exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a point is called ..... A) Metaphore. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 16. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 17. The use of a word or a phrase that actually imitates the sound it describes A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 18. "I think a storm is coming"is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 19. "CRASH!" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. Which type of poetry avoids the use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas A) Free Verse. B) Blank Verse. C) Ballad. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 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