This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 184 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 184 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Taco Tuesday" is an example of ..... A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 2. Group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin A) End rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 3. What is the break down of how a word is pronounced? A) Meter. B) Verse. C) Lyric. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Syllable. 4. "I've told you a million times to clean your room!" is an example of what figure of speech? A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 5. I have a ton of things to do! A) Not hyperbole. B) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 6. What are 'buzz', 'snap' and 'hiss' examples of? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Sibilance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 7. A run-on line of poetry where it carries over into the next line because there is no punctuation A) Enjambment. B) End-stopped line. C) Cutting. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 8. What is the name for a group of lines? A) A sentence. B) A paragraph. C) Per room. D) An epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Per room. 9. A phrase, verse, or group of verses repeated at intervals throughout a song, or poem, especially at the end of each stanza. A) Verse. B) Refrain. C) Blank Verse. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 10. ..... are pauses that divide a poem into lines, allows for the poem to be read more smoothly A) Line breaks. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line breaks. 11. Line Breaks A) The end of a line. B) Punctuation in the middle of the line. C) Past, present, or future, when the events in the poem happened. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The end of a line. 12. What is the rhyme scheme from Sonnet 30: " ..... thing may be told ..... should harden ice ..... with senseless cold ..... by wonderful device" A) Father. B) BBCC. C) AABB. D) ABCD. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 13. She was a night owl. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 14. Poetry that expresses thoughts and feelings; songlike A) Narrative. B) Stanza. C) Lyric. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric. 15. Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines, widely used by Shakespeare A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Couplet. D) Concrete poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. 16. In which WWII event did Japan use the strategy of surprise attack to bomb the United States? A) D-Day on the shores of France. B) Pearl Harbor. C) Invasion of Poland. D) W-E Give. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pearl Harbor. 17. The repetition of the same vowel sounds within words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 18. Iambic pentameter is how many syllables A) 5. B) 7. C) 10. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 10. 19. Metaphor can be defined as: A) A comparison of two things that are different from each other but share some common qualities. B) The moral of a story. C) Uses like or as to compare two things. D) An exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A comparison of two things that are different from each other but share some common qualities. 20. The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Ballad. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 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