This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 274 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 274 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. There is a direct statement of the similarity between two items, through theuse of such words as like or as A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Similarly. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Similarly. 2. Wordplay that uses homonyms (two different words that are spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. "A bicycle can't stand on its own because it's two-tired." Dad jokes are often punny. A) Prose. B) Pun. C) Quatrain. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 3. Use of words that imitate sound A) Meter. B) Rhythm. C) Naming. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Naming. 4. 'Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roaris an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 5. I feel blue today (blue = sad) A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Juxtaposition. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 6. A literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings A) Irony. B) Assonance. C) Apostrophe. D) Diction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irony. 7. What is the following statement an example of? The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 8. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or entire line is restated A) Stanza. B) Repetition. C) Line. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 9. A humorous verse form of 5 lines with a rhyme scheme aabba A) Limerick. B) Verse. C) Tercet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 10. The pattern of a poem A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 11. A figure of speech that suggests a similarity between two different things (usually using "like" or "as")is called A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. Unconnected A) Personification in which human characteristics are given to animals. B) Personification of an absent/dead person or an inanimate object is spoken to as if present or livingex) Death, take me now. C) Repetition of accented vowel sounds in a sentence ex) he cried a sigh of high denial. D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Omitting conjunctions, articles, or pronouns for speed or economyex) the conjunction "&" is removed in I came, I saw, I conquered. 13. Descriptive words that use the 5 senses to create a picture A) Imagery. B) Symbolism. C) Allusion. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. The pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of poetry A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhyming. C) End Rhyme. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 15. Language and description that appeals to the five senses. A) Imagination. B) Internal rhyme. C) Irony. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 16. It is going to rain tomorrow. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None. 17. The implied listener in a poem is the A) Speaker. B) Poet. C) Palindrome. D) Auditor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Auditor. 18. Anything that stands for or represents something else A) Poem. B) Symbol. C) Stanza. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 19. Workers who move scenery or handle props in a theatrical production A) Cast. B) Actors. C) Crew. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crew. 20. By saying, "she is a walking dictionary" you would be using a ..... A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Extended metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. ← 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