This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 221 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 221 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is it called when words share an accented vowel sound and succeeding consonant sound? A) Rhyme. B) Masculine rhyme. C) Feminine rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 2. Imagery only appeals to the sense of sight. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 3. The following lines are examples of:But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. A) Enjambments. B) End-Stopped Lines. C) Couplets. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-Stopped Lines. 4. The author's attitude. A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Stanza. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 5. An indirect or passing reference A) Onomatopoeia. B) Allusion. C) Figurative language. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 6. If something is fragile it is A) Made of glass. B) Hard and strong. C) From France. D) Easily broken. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Easily broken. 7. The Odyssey begins ..... years after the Trojan War ended. A) 10. B) 20. C) 5. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10. 8. Something like "Civil War" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Oxymoron. C) Personification. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 9. A poem in the form of an address to a particular subject A) Elegy. B) Ballad. C) Sonnet. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 10. Using like or as to compare two unlike things in an effort to describe something A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 11. The repetition of vowel sounds in words that do not end with the same consonant A) Repetition. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 12. Which of the following words completes the rhyme:grade, maid, spade, fade A) Afraid. B) Today. C) Phrase. D) Haze. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Afraid. 13. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the ..... of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth. A) Rhythm. B) Meter. C) Tone. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 14. The act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again. A) REPETITION. B) TONE. C) THEME. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REPETITION. 15. Poetry not written in rhythmical pattern or meter. A) Ode. B) Blank verse. C) Free verse. D) Epic poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 16. The use of words that sound like what they mean: "I heard a fly buzz" A) Onomatopoeia. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. What is metaphor? A) Exaggeration for effect. B) A comparison of unlike things without using like or as. C) A comparison of unlike things using like or as. D) Repeition of intial consonant sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A comparison of unlike things without using like or as. 18. ..... compares two or more things by implying that one thing is another. It does not use like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 19. Slippery, smooth silk slipped through Sarah's slender fingers A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. Which of the following is not an example of figurative language used to make comparisons? A) Metaphor. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. ← 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