This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 197 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 197 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following best exemplify a metaphor? A) The snow is a white blanket. B) The snow is very cold. C) The snow is like falling ash. D) The silence was as suffocating as the snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The snow is a white blanket. 2. "Curving up, then down. Meeting blue sky and green earth. Melding sun and rain." If I rearranged these ideas into three lines with a specific pattern of syllables, then I have created a ..... A) Ballad. B) Simile. C) Haiku. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haiku. 3. In poetry, what is "meter" ? A) Words that sound the same. B) Sophisticated vocabulary. C) The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables. D) The length of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables. 4. The repeated 'T' sounds in the following line are an example of:To the tune o' those Weary Blues. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 5. Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. E) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 6. A form of dramatic exaggeration used in poetry and prose alike A) Hyperbole. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 7. Poem or stanza composed of 5 lines A) Couplet. B) Cinquain. C) Sonnet. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cinquain. 8. The beat in a poem A) Stanza. B) Lines. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 9. A group of lines of poetry is called ..... A) To see. B) Per room. C) A paragraph. D) A collection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Per room. 10. Direct comparison A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. Imagery is ..... A) A conversation between two or more people in a book, play, or movie. B) Something attractive or interesting. C) Using words to create a mental picture. D) The voice of the person or object telling us the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using words to create a mental picture. 12. The feeling created in the reader by a poem/story. A) Personification. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 13. Harsh or discordant word sounds; the opposite of euphony A) Lyric. B) Cocophony. C) Personification. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cocophony. 14. The trees danced in the breeze is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Smilie. D) Exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 15. Changes in tone, mood, subject matter, etc. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Shifts. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shifts. 16. The following is an example of ..... ? Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 17. A collection of lines in a poem. Similar to a paragraph. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Stanza. C) Meter. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 18. Poems, like songs, depend on ..... to help express meaning and emotions. A) Stanzas. B) Rhymes. C) Sound. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhymes. 19. "boom, buzz, crackle, gurgle, hiss, pop, sizzle, snap, swoosh, whir, zip" are examples of: A) Poetry. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Sounds. D) Rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sounds. 20. Repetition of beginning sound A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. ← 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