This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 100 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 100 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read between the lines. Think beyond the text. What is the hidden meaning? A) Infer. B) Analyze. C) Explain. D) Compare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Infer. 2. A particular method of using sounds in language (alliteration, simile, metaphor, personification etc.) A) Rhyme (rima). B) Poetic techniques (caracteristicas poeticas). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic techniques (caracteristicas poeticas). 3. What does "metaphor" mean? A) Rhymes at the end of lines. B) Comparing two unlike things using the verb "is". C) Repetition of a sound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Comparing two unlike things using the verb "is". 4. A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem. A) Stanza. B) Verse. C) Theme. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 5. A sound device in which a word makes the sound A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. What is this an example of? Break a leg. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 7. A repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Anaphora. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 8. BAM! The door shut behind me. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 9. A poem's form is its A) Type (ie sonnet, haiku, ode, etc). B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Arrangement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arrangement. 10. ..... is the repeating of words, phrases, or lines in a poem. A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Free verse. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 11. The moonlight danced over the still water on the lake. A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. The children's feet squished in the mud. A) Alliteration. B) Neither. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 13. A comparison between two unlike things thing in which one thing is spoken of as if it is was another A) Speaker. B) Shift of tone. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 14. Crash, pow, click A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. Arrangement of words in a poetic line or sentence A) Syntax. B) Cutting. C) Diction. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 16. Which type of poetry tells a story? A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative. 17. Comparison between two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. The technique of showing that words, phrases, and clauses are comparable in context and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. A) Parallelism. B) Personification. C) Sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 19. Words that represent sounds. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 20. The repetition of words or ideas for emphasis A) Repetition. B) Metaphor. C) Anthropomorphization. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGenres 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books