This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 103 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 103 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Words that represent a sound. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Onopoly. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 2. "We passed the fields of grazing grain" contains ..... A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Free verse. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 3. A poem usually of fourteen lines and following one several sets of rhyme schemes is known as a A) Elegy. B) Pastiche. C) Sonnet. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 4. Giving human qualities or characteristics to non-living things. A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 5. What word means a humorous, rhyming five line poems with a specific rhyme pattern and rhyme scheme. A) Haiku. B) Refrain. C) Limerick. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 6. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" means A) The speaker stood at a dead end road. B) The speaker stood at a fork in the road. C) The speaker stood by three roads. D) The speaker stood by a path leading into the woods. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The speaker stood at a fork in the road. 7. Metaphors, similes, & personification are all types of this ..... A) Imagery. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 8. "The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle." is an example of which figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 9. An exaggeration meant for effect A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Understatement. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 10. Melancholy poem that laments its subject's death. A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) Italian sonnet. D) Shakespearian sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 11. A form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain with the first and the third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas A) Villanelle. B) Sonnet. C) Meter. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Villanelle. 12. A poem without rhyme A) Assonance. B) Free Verse. C) Figurative Meaning. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 13. Which of these is a proper example of alliteration? A) Phil likes people who can bake pies. B) Bill runs from Dave alone. C) Harry hates having hives. D) Denise leaves Alice sleeping. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Harry hates having hives. 14. A literary term in which one representative term stands for something else. A) Metonymy. B) Enjambment. C) Anaphora. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metonymy. 15. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza A) Enjambment. B) End-stopped line. C) Refrain. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 16. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex:If this were a poem, this would be an example of the technique A) Diction. B) Enjambment. C) Free verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 17. Arrangement of words or phrases in a sentence A) Syntax. B) Diction. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Syntax. 18. What is a set of lines in a poem with a line space between them? A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 19. ..... is something literal in the story that stands for or evokes an abstract idea. A) Symbolism. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 20. "The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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