This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 187 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 187 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Figures of speech that are entirely exaggerated in order to make a point. A) Poetry. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 2. Are you hungry? Let's find a cafe for ....., ..... and ..... A) Egg, chips and cola. B) Coffee, cakes and tea. C) Coffee, cakes and cola. D) Fish, chips and coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coffee, cakes and cola. 3. Language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader A) Alliteration. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 4. When the word is repeated at the end of the lines A) Epistrophe. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epistrophe. 5. U A) Stressed syllable. B) Unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unstressed syllable. 6. Refers to words that rhyme at the ends of lines A) Diction. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) End rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End rhymes. 7. Five pairs of iambs is called: A) Syntax. B) Iambic Pentameter. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iambic Pentameter. 8. Her heels clacked on the hardwood floor. What type of sound device is used? A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 9. Comparing two unlike items using the verb "be" . A) Simile. B) Meter. C) Metaphor. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 10. My dad knows everything about cars. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 11. Characters, settings, images, extra. that stand in for bigger ideas. A) Rhythm. B) Verse. C) Symbol. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 12. I want to know how you skip across the stars and use the moon as a landing mat. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Irony. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 13. Using words that have a very similar ending sound. A) Slant rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Slant rhyme. 14. The silence crept into the classroom. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. Open secret / tragic comedy / original copies A) Paradox. B) Zeugma. C) Chiasmus. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 16. A dove moved silently above the waves. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 17. Language that just means exactly what the words mean is called A) Figurative language. B) Literal language. C) Ambiguous language. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Literal language. 18. "Two little clouds one April day, Were floating by above the hay." What is this an example of? A) Simile. B) Rhyming/rhyme. C) Poetry. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyming/rhyme. 19. Examine methodically and in detail the constitution or structure of (something, especially information), typically for purposes of explanation and interpretation A) Analyze. B) Poetry. C) Tone. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Analyze. 20. A poem with six stanzas and six lines, and let's just say has a lot of magical sixes in it A) Sestina. B) Ballad. C) Ode. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sestina. ← 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