This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 188 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 188 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of figurative language is this statement:My head is pounding like a drum A) Imagery and Simile. B) Imagery and Metaphor. C) Imagery only. D) UNSURE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery and Simile. 2. This sentence is an example of what: "You are my knight in shining armor." A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 3. What is an elegy? A) A poem written in honor of someone deceased. B) A poem that is intended to show gratitude, respect, or admiration to someone or something. C) A poem that tells a story. D) Poetry NOT written in rhyme or meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem written in honor of someone deceased. 4. Repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words A) Theme. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 5. When words at the end of a verse rhyme A) End Rhyme. B) Final Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 6. What is the individual style in which a certain author writes his or her works? A) Voice. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voice. 7. The line of a poem stops and is continued on the next line even though there is plenty of space and the idea continues. A) Paragraph. B) Line Space. C) Line Break. D) Indention. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line Break. 8. Eye rime A) General character of attitude in a piece of writing. B) The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza. C) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. D) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A "false" rime in which the spelling of the words is alike, but the pronunciations differ (daughter and laughter). 9. Language that appeals to your sense-sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch is A) Sensory language. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory language. 10. Exaggeration or overstatement of a fact for effect A) Enjambment. B) Hyperbole. C) Haiku. D) Iambic pentameter:. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 11. "My love is like a rose" is ..... A) Personification. B) A simile. C) A metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A simile. 12. Line ends with some mark of punctuation; we pause at the end of the line A) Enjambment. B) Punctuation. C) Line Breaks. D) Endstop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endstop. 13. True or False:Imagery is the use of a word or phrase, such as "hiss" or "buzz" that imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 14. Bob is brave like a lion A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. A genre of literature that expresses ideas and feelings in compact, imaginative, musical words A) Prose. B) Metaphor. C) Poetry. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 16. A group of words in a poem, rather than sentences A) Paragraphs. B) Couplet. C) Stanzas. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lines. 17. A group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme ..... A) Couplet. B) Tercet. C) Quatrain. D) Sestet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tercet. 18. It was July, and the sun toasted the emerald grass until it smelled of warmth and green and life. It was July, and my heart soaked up the air warmth until it sang of joy and love and life. How many lines in the poem above? A) This poem has 1 line. B) This poem has 2 lines. C) This poem has 4 lines. D) This poem has 8 lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) This poem has 8 lines. 19. What is an Anaphora? A) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences. B) The repetition of any word or phrase anywhere in a text. C) The repetition of a word or phrase anywhere in consecutive sentences. D) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of consecutive sentences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences. 20. This is a poem without regular patterns of rhythm or rhyme. A) Sonnet. B) Epic. C) Free verse. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. ← 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