This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 120 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 120 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "O, Helios, great sun-god, you gave me this gold for a high occasion" ~ paraphrased from MEDEA A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apostrophe. 2. An allusion is a(n)? A) Magic trick. B) Indirect reference to some idea, figure, etc. C) Symbol. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Indirect reference to some idea, figure, etc. 3. What is a fourteen-line poem about love that ends with a couplet is? A) Sonnet. B) Allegory. C) Parallelism. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 4. The beat of a poem, based on syllables A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhythm. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 5. Poetry free from any fixed or repeated patterns? A) Narrative Poem. B) Repetition. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 6. A duck's constant request for grapes is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Repetition. C) Metaphor. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 7. The juxtaposition of harsh jarring sounds in one or more lines A) Dissonance. B) Assonance. C) Syntax. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dissonance. 8. What type of figurative language is the following? "I am not ready to throw it out just yet." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 10. When the text compares two things using the terms "like" or "as?" A) Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers. B) The wind howls and the rain raps on the roof. C) The song of the sparrow fills my room with happiness. D) Her kindness is like a hug from a rainbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Her kindness is like a hug from a rainbow. 11. All the world is a stage, A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Paradox A) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. B) The giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea. C) A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. D) A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true. 13. The patterns of rhymes used in a poem, marked by letters to symbolize pattern A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 14. A group of words placed together similar to a paragraph is called a- A) Figurative language. B) Poetry. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 15. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Anaphora. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 16. " Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary, "-Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" A) Metaphor. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. A grouping of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem A) Poetry. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 18. Word endings that sound exactly alike, but the beginnings are different A) Exact rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate rhyme. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exact rhyme. 19. Definition:Rhyme A) A word or phase used over and over again. B) The sound of the end of a word. C) The repetition of a sound in two or more words. D) Words used to imitate sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of a sound in two or more words. 20. "You are my sunshine" is an example of A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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