This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 158 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 158 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words in one line of poetry. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 2. A pattern of end rhymes is the ..... A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 3. Poems are organized by- A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Paragraphs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 4. "sentences" in poetry A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Meter. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 5. The overall moral or lesson of a poem A) Theme. B) Allegory. C) Allusion. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 6. A line of metrical writing A) Verse. B) Rhythm. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 7. Figurative Language refers to the literal meaning of a sentence/phrase A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. Using the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually "see" the pattern of a poem is called ..... A) Rhyme Scheme/Pattern. B) End Rhyme. C) Metaphor. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme/Pattern. 9. What is the definition of the term:Sonnet? A) Poetry not written in a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. C) A group of lines, usually separated from other groups by a paragraph space. D) The audible pattern in a poem created by stressed (emphasized) syllables. E) The pattern of rhyme determined by looking at end rhyme in lines and stanzas of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. 10. Is poetry without rhyme. A) Blackout. B) Free Verse. C) Sonnet. D) ABC. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 11. ..... refers to literature that ridicules human folly or vice in order to bring about some kind of reform. A) Parody. B) Satire. C) Sarcasm. D) Verbal irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire. 12. The name of funny or silly poems is...../The name of funny or silly poems is..... A) Free verse poems/poems in free verse. B) Lyrical poems/lyrical poems. C) Narrative poems/narrative poems. D) Humorous poems/humorous poems. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humorous poems/humorous poems. 13. In the following poem "The Dirtiest Man in the World, " which kind of figurative language is present?"The Dirtiest Man in the World"Oh, I'm Dirty Dan, the world's dirtiest man, I never have taken a shower.I can't see my shirt ..... it's so covered with dirt, And my ears have enough to grow flowers. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 14. What is the purpose of alliteration in poetry? A) To describe a word that sounds like the sound it is describing. B) To compare two unrelated things. C) To create a musical effect. D) To give human qualities to non-human things. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To create a musical effect. 15. Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. A common ending sound in the line of a poem. A) Alliteration. B) Verse. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 17. I have a million homework assignments to complete, but I don't want to even start! A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. Stretching the truth to make a point A) Hyperbole. B) Sonnet. C) Haiku. D) Litotes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 19. A short poem of songlike quality especially one that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the speaker A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Ballad. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric. 20. The person that wrote the poem A) Narrator. B) Speaker. C) Poet. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. ← 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