This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 192 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 192 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A group of related items in a poem is called what? A) Rhyming words. B) Personification. C) Stanza. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 2. This is a composition in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines A) Flashback. B) Poem. C) Sonnet. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 3. The sea lashed out in anger at the ships, unwilling to tolerate another battle. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. A purposeful exaggeration for emphasis or humor A) Lying. B) Sarcasm. C) Hyperbole. D) Super Bowl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. "Your adventure would have been a dusty death if I'd not saved you." ~~ MEDEA A) Unrelated. B) Paradox. C) Chiasmus. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 6. Could be a word, a phrase, or even a sentence; a verse in a poem A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Couplet. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 7. Rhythmical pattern in a poem A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Stanza. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 8. When there is repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sounds, it is ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 9. How is a poem divided? A) Iamb. B) Lines. C) Denotation. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lines. 10. Is the following line a simile OR metaphor?"My mom has a heart of gold." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 11. "The cold, wet rain came down in buckets and drenched my clothes." is an example of A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. Words spelled like they sound A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 13. Using the same word or phrase more than once for emphasis is ..... A) Recurrence. B) Iteration. C) Repetition. D) Duplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 14. "An old silent pond ..... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again." What type of poem is shown above? A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Elegy. D) Epitaph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 15. When abstractions, animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human character, traits, abilities, or reactions A) Allusion. B) Figurative language. C) Personification. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 16. Feeling of a literary work A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Style. D) Persona. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 17. Ballad stanza A) A comparison between two things using like or as. B) An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally. C) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. D) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A four-line stanza in iambic meter in which the first and third unrhymed lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth rhyming lines have three metrical feet. 18. When words mean exactly what they say A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Symbol. D) Literal language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Literal language. 19. An open form of poetry which does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. A) Humorous poem. B) Lyric poem. C) Epic poem. D) Free verse poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poem. 20. Who or what the poem is about. A) Theme. B) Subject. C) Tone. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subject. ← 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