This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 132 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 132 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To give a human trait to something nonhuman. "The moon stared down, watching me. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Free verse. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 2. Boom! Swish! Ka pow! A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 3. Descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader, created by details of sight, sound, taste, smell, or movement A) Imagery. B) Personification. C) Mood. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 4. A line with two feet is called ..... A) Dimeter. B) Monometer. C) Three meters. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dimeter. 5. Use, more than once, of any element of language. This may be a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence. A) Repetition. B) Measure. C) Meter. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 6. "Homework is a breeze" I a ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Format. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. Unit of meter A) Speaker. B) Rhythm. C) Foot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot. 8. Repetition of consonant sounds usually at the ends of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 9. A unit of pronunciation that usually has one vowel sound. A) Simile. B) Sonnet. C) Stanza. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syllable. 10. This is a direct comparison. A) Metaphor. B) Allusion. C) Stanza. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. Does this sentence have a literal or figurative meaning? My whole life is one big circus. A) Literal. B) Figurative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative. 12. It has only three lines, with just seventeen syllables and no rhyming. A) Free Verse. B) Haiku. C) Ode. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 13. Sensory language is ..... A) A conversation between two or more people in a book, play, or movie. B) Words that have the same ending sound. C) Language that helps us picture things in our minds with our five senses. D) The effect of the writer's words on the reader. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Language that helps us picture things in our minds with our five senses. 14. What is a pattern of unstressed syllables within a line of verse? A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 15. What is the structure of syllables in the lines of a haiku? A) 3-5-3. B) 5-7-5. C) 9-7-9. D) 1-3-1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5-7-5. 16. ..... occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond. A) Apostrophe. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. 17. The use of words to create a vivid mental picture or physical sensation-appeals to the readers 5 senses-sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch A) Imagery. B) Meter. C) Theme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 18. An illustrator draws a picture of darkness around the main character. The darkness represents a problem that the character may be facing. What could this problem be? A) Night. B) Calm. C) Death. D) Freedom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 19. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 20. A regular pattern of end rhyme A) Rhyme scheme. B) Idiom. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. ← 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