This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 126 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 126 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A line of poetry containing seven metrical feet A) Tetrameter. B) Heptameter. C) Octameter. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heptameter. 2. Alexandrine A) Verse containing seven meterical feet. B) A term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes. Often words at the end of lines at first seem like they will rhyme but are not pronounced in perfect rhyme. C) A metaphor that extends throught the work. D) Verse of iambic hexameter (a verse of six feet, each of which has the stress on the second beat), found in French poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse of iambic hexameter (a verse of six feet, each of which has the stress on the second beat), found in French poetry. 3. "And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes" is an example of which literary term? A) Internal Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhyme. 4. Concrete details which appeal to the senses so that we can see or sense what it is being written about. A) Word Art. B) Visual poem. C) Diction. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 5. This type of poetry shows a lot of emotion. A) Lyrical. B) Free verse. C) Humorous. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyrical. 6. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. In the phrase 'the wind howled angrily', what figure of speech is being used? A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 8. Repeating the same sentence structure or pattern of words. A) Parallelism. B) Imagery. C) Anaphora. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallelism. 9. Giving human-like qualities to animals, objects or ideas. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. A word that sounds like what it means. Ex:buzz, click, bang, sizzle A) Automobile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Allusion. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 11. In Flander's field the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row. That mark our pace; and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing, fly. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Sensory Imagery. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End Rhyme. 12. What kind of figurative language shows an extravagant exaggeration? A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 13. Which figure of speech is exemplified by the word 'sizzle'? A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 14. A central or universal idea (expresses truth about human behavior)**usually the "moral" or lesson learned** A) Meter. B) Poet. C) Theme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 15. ..... gives human or lifelike characteristics to something that is not human or not alive. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!' A) Limerick. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 17. A Shakespearean Sonnet contains this many lines of poetry: A) Four. B) Twelve. C) Fourteen. D) Twenty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fourteen. 18. Words that carry opposite meanings to create an image A) Foot. B) Vinegar. C) Irony. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 19. Rhymes within lines A) Partial rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Alternate rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 20. Language that gives the reader a vivid picture; appeals to at least one of the five senses. A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Persona. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. ← 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