This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 160 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 160 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." Ex:Love is a battlefield A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Novels like Harry Potter and Wonder are written in..... A) Prose. B) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prose. 3. Rhetorical A) Writing and reading a poem aloud. B) Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric. C) System to create a, acrostic poem. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relating to or concerned with the art of rhetoric. 4. Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Stanza. C) Free verse. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 5. A contradiction that can be true and untrue at the same time. A) Allegory. B) Paradox. C) Repetition. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 6. A phrase which has a meaning that is commonly understood by speakers of the language, but whose meaning is often different from the normal meaning of the words. An example:it's a piece of cake A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiom. 7. Rhythm & Meter is best defined as..... A) Number of lines in each stanza. B) Number of punctuation used in each line of poetry. C) The sound pattern in a line of poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The sound pattern in a line of poetry. 8. Giving inanimate object characteristics of life. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. "the wind whispered a midnight message to me" is an example of: A) Hyperbole. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. A big exaggeration used to make a point A) Hyperbole. B) Enjambment. C) Meter. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. It is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 12. Repetition of the initial sounds or stressed syllables in words close together A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 13. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a rhythm or flow to the poem A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 14. Stanza with 4 lines A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Sestet. D) Octet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 15. What is a refrain in a poem? A) A group of lines. B) Lines that are repeated throughout the poem. C) Four-line stanza. D) To stop someone from doing something . Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines that are repeated throughout the poem. 16. A group of lines separated from other groups of lines by white space. A) Line Break. B) Stanza. C) Free Verse Poetry. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 17. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. A) Stanza. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 18. The presentation of an idea, person, or an event to make it seem less than it is-for example, describing a huge loss as a "minor setback" A) Understatement. B) Overstatement. C) Tone. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 19. Words that sound like their meanings. A) Euphony. B) Sounds. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 20. When a poem rhymes and the rhyming is organized in patterns, this is known as ..... A) Meter. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Verse. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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