This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 17 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of words that mimic a sound for the reader is called A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 2. Beginning consonant sounds are the same in words close together A) Stanza. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. Metaphors and similes are used to ..... A) Make poems unrealistic. B) Make comparisons. C) Confuse readers. D) Distract from the overall message. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Make comparisons. 4. The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses A) Anaphora. B) Juxtaposition. C) Analogy. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anaphora. 5. In the 3 lines of a haiku, the syllables go 5-7-5. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. Form A) Poet, speaker, point of view, tone. B) Sound, imagery, figurative language. C) Patterns at the end of the lines of a poem. D) Arrangement or structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arrangement or structure. 7. Onomatopoeia is: A) The use of a word whos sound imitates or suggests its meaning like hoot or splat. B) The repetition of the same or similar consonants. C) The pattern of rhyming sounds. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The use of a word whos sound imitates or suggests its meaning like hoot or splat. 8. An implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 9. A grouping of two or more lines of a poem A) Imagery. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 10. The drive to Disney World will last forever if I have to be stuck in the backseat with my pesky little sister. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. "The raindrops danced on the tabletop." The kind of figurative language used here is ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. Poetry without rhyme or meter A) Free verse. B) Ballad. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 13. The ideas, feelings, and associations that a word brings to mind. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connotation. 14. Rhyme Scheme A) The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry. B) Rhyme schemes are labeled by letters of the alphabet. C) The rhyme scheme for:Roses are redViolets are blueSugar is sweetAnd so are you ABCB. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pattern of rhyme that comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry. 15. When two or more words have the same sound at the ends of lines is: A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 16. A poem paragraph consisting of lines. A) Connotation. B) Symbol. C) Lines. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 17. The time is out of joint, O cursed spite That ever I was born to set it right! A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 18. "My cell phone screamed at me from across the room."Giving human characteristics to something that is non-human is called A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 19. Narrative poetry A) Poetry that tells a story in verse. B) Poetry that has the 1st and 3rd lines having 5 syllables and the second line having 7. C) Rhythmical pattern in a poem. D) Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in musical verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry that tells a story in verse. 20. Harsh, jarring sounds, words with k's, g's, ch's, t's, p's, and other gutturals and explosives A) Euphony. B) Cacophony. C) Enjambment. D) Masculine rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cacophony. ← 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