This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 163 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 163 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. His sorrow goes/ Like mountain snows/ In waters sweet and clear A) Simle. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simle. 2. She hung her head like a dying flower. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. Jumbo shrimp is an example of what? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Idiom. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 4. What is comparing two things that are not the same as if they were the same called? A) Mood. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. "The big, bad bear scared all the baby bunnies by the bushes" is an example of: A) Oxymoron. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 6. Assonance and consonance are concerned about letters within a word while alliteration is concerned about the letters at the start of a word. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. A unit of speech heard as a single sound; one "beat" of a word or phrase A) Foot. B) Meter. C) Syllable. D) Stressed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Syllable. 8. Words that rhyme within one line of poetry. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Internal rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 9. A simile can be defined as ..... A) The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line. B) The author's attitude toward a subject, created by the author's specific word choices and poetic structure. Ex:positive, negative, awestruck, encouraging, etc. C) When an object represents a larger idea or concept; ex:a dove represents peace. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 10. The "beat" of a poem A) Rhyme. B) Hyperbole. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 11. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art. A) Allusion. B) Free Verse. C) Rhythm. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 12. Crime, Rhyme, Time, Lime, Climb A) Metaphors. B) Rhymes. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhymes. 13. Simile or Metaphor? That girl is as tough as nails. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. Well, good for you, you look happy and healthyNot me, if you ever cared to askis an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. The person "speaking" the words we read; the narrator of a poem. A) Speaker. B) Author. C) Publisher. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 16. The last six lines of poetry in a sonnet where the conclusion of the problem is "solved." A) Sestet. B) Shakespearean sonnet. C) Simile. D) Soliloquy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sestet. 17. Basic pattern/concept common to people of different times/ cultures ex) creation story or characters ex) hero, evil king A) Trope. B) Archetype. C) Canon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Archetype. 18. Which line from the poem presents a problem that the speaker cannot control? A) To keep away the birds that hoped to eat. B) Of pests for whom green leaves mean lunch. C) Tomatoes in the strip of clay. D) One night it rained so fiercely that. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One night it rained so fiercely that. 19. Zig-zagging down the roadTrying not to stray over the center lineOr hit a curbOr break an axleOr flatten a tireOr wind up in the next surprise sinkhole.Driving in Toledo is not a sportFor the timid or the sane or the under-insured." This is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Free verse poetry. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse poetry. 20. A poetic beat using light and heavy stress patterns in words A) Rhythm. B) Imagery. C) Internal rhyme. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. ← 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