This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 150 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 150 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The layers of meaning that a word has, or the emotional associations or implications of a word. A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 2. Slight or inaccurate repetition of sounds (vowel sounds in words DO NOT exactly rhyme) A) Near/half/impure rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) True rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Near/half/impure rhyme. 3. Words that end in the same sound A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyming words. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming words. 4. The comparison of two unlike things with similar qualities using "like" or "as" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 5. "Sally sold seashells down by the seashore" is an example of: A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. A single metrical line of poetry, or a name for poetry in general (as opposed to prose) A) Free Verse. B) Tone. C) Verse. D) Metrical Verse. E) Blank Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 7. A narrative poem-usually containing much repetition and often repeated refrain-often tell a single dramatic episode A) Ballad. B) Ode. C) Free verse. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 8. An ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or verse A) Stanza. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 9. The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings (buzz, clank, hiss) A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 10. Which is an example of assonance? A) Allie's apple-eating alligator. B) Tall, towering two-faced traitors. C) Pass the fuss on to Miss Tess. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allie's apple-eating alligator. 11. Word and rhythm choices that affect how a poem sounds A) Poetic structure. B) Poetic sound. C) Stanza. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poetic sound. 12. The length of a line is referred to as ..... and has to do with repeated sequence of meter and accented or unaccented syllables. A) Poetic feet. B) Poetic stanza. C) Poetic rhyme scheme. D) Poetic format. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetic feet. 13. Which of the following IS a characteristic of a lyric poem? A) It is always written in a specific meter. B) It is always about love or losing someone you love. C) It uses emotionally charged language and images to express thoughts and feelings. D) It always has a specific rhyme scheme of ABAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It uses emotionally charged language and images to express thoughts and feelings. 14. The author's use of vivid and descriptive details that appeal to the human senses A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 15. A unit of poetry such as a stanza or line. A) Free verse. B) Blank line. C) Line. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse. 16. How the reader feels while reading the piece of writing A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 17. What do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are close together? A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate rhyme. D) Alliteration. E) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 18. What is a group of lines called that form a verse? A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Paragraph. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 19. I caught a fish the size of a mini van! A) Personification. B) Synecdoche. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 20. What is the feeling of a poem as created by the author's point of view? A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. ← 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