This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 182 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 182 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Read the following line: "The sticky chocolate covered my chin." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal? A) Sense of hearing. B) Sense of smell. C) Sense of taste. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sense of touch. 2. A group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetry. A) Line. B) Foot. C) Stanza. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 3. Gives human qualities or abilities to nonhuman things A) Personification. B) Paradox. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 4. Which is an example of imagery? A) Life is like a box of chocolates. B) Pizza is heaven. C) Happy, Sad, Scary, Peaceful, Funny and etc. D) Kids could hear the popping and crackling as their mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kids could hear the popping and crackling as their mom dropped the bacon into the frying pan, and soon the salty, greasy smell wafted toward me. 5. ..... is a similarity between words in spelling but, not in pronunciation. A) Ear Rhyme. B) Arm Rhyme. C) Eye Rhyme. D) Face Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eye Rhyme. 6. Which form of figurative language compares one thing to another without using like or as? A) Simile. B) Symbol. C) Metaphor. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 7. Writing in paragraph form, using everyday language without stanzas, is known as ....., whereas writing with poetic elements and structure is considered ..... A) Verse Analysis. B) Prose Verse. C) Essay Poetry. D) Novels Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prose Verse. 8. A poem of 14 lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes A) Simile. B) Rhythm. C) Sonnet. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sonnet. 9. Which poetic term is defined as "the repetition of initial consonant sounds" ? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. In my poem, "His red sports car is just a dream" and "It needs no gas, it runs on steam" would be an example of a ..... A) Repetition. B) Couplet. C) Enjambment. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 11. Two lines of rhymed poetry with the same meter that are next to each other within a larger poem A) Couplet. B) Chicken Cutlet. C) Stanza. D) End Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Couplet. 12. Which of the following is defined as-as the use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Meter. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. When two words in the same line rhyme A) Connotation. B) Limerick. C) Lyrical poetry. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal rhyme. 14. A four line stanza is called a A) Sestina. B) Quatrain. C) Quadrant. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 15. Repeating identical consonant sounds A) Simile. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 16. "How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath / To say to me that thou are out of breath?" This is an example of ..... or unrhymed iambic pentameter. A) Sonnet. B) Blank verse. C) Couplet. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 17. What are the structural elements of a poem? A) The basic rhythmic structure in verse. B) The intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns. C) The distinctive poetic structure with distinguishable characteristics. D) The basic form of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The basic form of a poem. 18. What is the speaker? A) The voice in the poem. B) The attitude the writer takes toward the subject, character and reader. C) The writer's choice of words for clarity, effectiveness and precision. D) Atmosphere or emotion the writer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The voice in the poem. 19. A rhyming poem of 14 lines is called ..... A) An ode. B) A sonnet. C) A haiku. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A sonnet. 20. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem? We can't find the cat, We don't know where she's at, Oh, where did she go? Does anyone know? Let's ask this walking hat. A) Wow. B) The father. C) Ababa. D) Papaya. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The father. ← 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