This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 121 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 121 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of vowel sounds within words, phrases or sentences A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Poetry. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 2. The scarlet ibis representing Doodle is an example of: A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 3. Restating the same words or phrases A) Sound device. B) Repetition. C) Allusion. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. Which is the best example of sibilance? A) "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout". B) "Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers". C) "Mary had a little lamb/its fleece was white as snow". D) "rubbery blubbery macaroni". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout". 5. A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Pace. C) Tone. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 6. What type of figurative language compares similar items without using 'like' or 'as'? A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 7. The overall mood, attitude, or feeling of the poem. A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 8. Japanese-style poem written in three linesFocuses traditionally on natureLines respectively are 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables A) Limerick. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 9. Rhyme Scheme is the pattern of rhyming words in a poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. The crunch of leaves under my feet and the chill of the wind around me A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 11. The "attitude" of the author toward the audience and characters (e.g., serious or humorous). A) Ballad. B) Tone. C) Stanza. D) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 12. Compares two apparently unlike things without the use of a connecting word A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Analogy. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 13. Which word means the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of a group of words? A) Alliteration. B) Lyric. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. A pause within a line of poetry, sometimes punctuated, sometimes not, often mirroring natural speech A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Enjambment. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cutting. 15. What is the syllabic pattern of this haiku?Winter by the pondice hangs from a craggy treeWhere did the frogs go? A) 4-6-4. B) 5-7-5. C) 5-6-5. D) 5-7-4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5-7-5. 16. A form of writing in verseWhile many of these consist of lines that rhyme, rhyming is not necessary. A) Poem. B) Ballad. C) Metaphor. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 17. What is the purpose of using alliteration in poetry? A) To convey complex emotions. B) To create a visual effect. C) To confuse the reader. D) To create a musical and rhythmic effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To create a musical and rhythmic effect. 18. Repeated vowel sounds A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Nomenclature. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 19. What is the correct term for the following definition? The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem:AABBA, ABACDC, etc. A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 20. The name given to poetry that doesn't use any strict meter or rhyme scheme. A) Meter. B) Ballad. C) Free Verse. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. ← 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