This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 149 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 149 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The city was a jungle" is an example of what? A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 2. A reference to a famous person, place, or thing A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 3. It was July, and the suntoasted the emerald grassuntil it smelled of warmthand green and life. It was July, and my heartsoaked up the air warmthuntil it sang of joyand love and life. How many stanzas in the poem above? A) 1 stanza. B) 2 stanzas. C) 4 stanzas. D) 8 stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 stanzas. 4. What is this an example of? deer, sheer, peer, we're A) Repetition. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Symbolism. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 5. Comparison of two things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Similitude. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Literal A) The basic dictionary meaning of a word. B) Additional meaning attached to a word, usually a feeling. C) Meaning exactly what it says. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meaning exactly what it says. 7. Unique point of view or attitude towards a subject A) End-stop. B) Metaphor. C) Poetic voice. D) Foot/feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetic voice. 8. Exaggeration (ex:I am so hungry I could eat a horse.) A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 9. Repetition of beginning sounds in two or more words in a line or stanza. A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme pattern. C) Imagery. D) Voice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. The comparison of two things in which one is said to be another is called ..... A) Simile. B) Rhyming words. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 11. A pattern of strong beats in speech or writing, especially in poetry A) Sensory language (lenguaje sensorial). B) Rhythm (ritmo). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm (ritmo). 12. A resemblance in the sounds of words/syllables either between their vowels or between their consonants A) Simile. B) Parallelism. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 13. What is a prose poem? A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. B) One or more characters speaks to other characters. C) Consists of three lines-line #1= 5 syllables; line #2 7 syllables; line #3 5 syllables. D) Poetry set to music. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Expresses or communicates thoughts or feelings. 14. What is a refrain A) The voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem. B) The pattern in rhyme which represents identical final sounds in lines or verses. C) The repetition of vowel sounds within words. D) A repeated passage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A repeated passage. 15. Language that appeals to one or more of your senses ..... sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is A) Imagery. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. The universal message of the poem. A) Free Verse. B) Verse. C) Theme. D) Inference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 17. One unit of meter.There are five basic types of ..... :iambic, anapestic, trochaic, dactylic, spondaic. A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 18. The repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants, in neighboring words A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 19. The place where a line ends in a poem is called ..... A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line break. 20. "The sound of her voice was sweet" is an example of: A) Imagery. B) Metaphor. C) Recommendation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recommendation. ← 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