This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 114 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 114 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. One thing that stands for something else is referred to as A) A simile. B) A metaphor. C) Personification. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 2. Which word decribes a technique used by writers where a thing which ordinarily is known for one thing actually represents something completely different such as DIckinson's setting sun and Frost's two roads? A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 3. A section at the end of a book that serves as a comment or a conclusion to what has happened A) Dialogue. B) Epilogue. C) Soliloquy. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epilogue. 4. True or false:every sonnet must contain exactly fourteen lines A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. A ..... in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Rhyme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 6. Near rhyme in which the concluding consonant sounds are identical but not the vowels. Example:sun/noon, should/food, slim/ham. A) Eye rhyme:. B) Slant rhyme:. C) Rhyme scheme:. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Slant rhyme:. 7. The "speaker" in poetry refers to A) The person speaking in the poem could be the poet or the character in the poem. B) The narrator in a play or drama. C) The audience that is reading the poem. D) A type of electronics used to project sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The person speaking in the poem could be the poet or the character in the poem. 8. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of 2 or more words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 9. Genre A) A category of artistic composition. B) A category of superheros. C) A category of people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A category of artistic composition. 10. Rhyme scheme involves the repetition of similar sounds at the ..... of lines of poetry. A) Beginning. B) Middle. C) End. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End. 11. Which figurative language is this an example of:My father told me that life is a journey. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. Helps the reader picture ordinary things in new ways. Is not literally true. A) Imagination. B) Internal Rhyme. C) Sound Devices. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 13. The use of parts of a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter Adds balance and rhythm "Easy come, easy go." A) Irony. B) Parallelism. C) Allusion. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Parallelism. 14. What is the pattern of rhymes in a poem called? A) Repetition. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Refrain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme Scheme. 15. Uses like or as to compare two things A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Diction is the literary term that means A) The connections we have with words. B) An author's choice of words. C) The definition of words. D) The common way of speaking with friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An author's choice of words. 17. The crazy car is colorful. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 18. Define juxtaposition A) Using a dictionary. B) Putting ideas together. C) Main idea. D) Word choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Putting ideas together. 19. A quatrain is a group of how many lines? A) 8. B) 5. C) 4. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4. 20. An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis or humor A) Repetition. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. ← 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