This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 146 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 146 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The highest degree of an adjective or adverb or an exaggerated or hyperbolic expression A) Adverb. B) Metonymy. C) Superlative. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Superlative. 2. Cat, bat, hat, sat A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 3. A group of lines in poetry. A) Rhyme. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 4. What type of poetry is this the definition for?A five-line, rhymed, rhythmic poem that is usually humorous. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 5. A comparison without using the words like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Lines. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 6. What poetic device is exemplified by the following phrase: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." ? A) Anaphora. B) Epistrophe. C) Epanalepsis. D) Antimetabole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 7. Homework is a breeze, " is an example of which type of figurative language? A) Repetition. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Limerick. D) Syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Limerick. 9. Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five syllables, seven syllables, and five syllables. Typically about nature and use no rhyme scheme. A) Haiku. B) Ode. C) Sonnet. D) Iambic Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 10. Two-line poems that match in rhyme and length. A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Quatrain. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 11. The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line. A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Personification. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. Which term has the following definition:Old French epic poems A) Elegy. B) Chanson de geste. C) Haiku. D) Doggerel. E) Epithalamus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chanson de geste. 13. What is the definition of a symbol? A) A symbol is a type of punctuation used in writing. B) A symbol is a simile. C) A symbol is a figure of speech. D) A symbol is any image or thing that stands for something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A symbol is any image or thing that stands for something else. 14. When human qualities and ideas are given to things A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 15. The overall feeling of the story is called A) Theme. B) Mood. C) Tone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mood. 16. Figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds A) Couplet. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 17. She's as cold as ice. A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 18. Form of Japanese poetry that has 5 unrhymed lines consisting of 5, 7, 5, 7 and 7 syllables A) Haiku. B) Tanka. C) Shakespearean sonnet. D) Iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tanka. 19. A poem with five lines, a rhyme scheme of AABBA, that is comedic is called a? A) Funny. B) ABBA poem. C) Free verse poem. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Limerick. 20. What does "denotation" mean? A) The literal meaning of a word. B) A statement of exaggeration. C) Emotions and ideas associated with the word. D) Refers to a demonstrative action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The literal meaning of a word. ← 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