This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 277 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 277 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which term refers to the purposeful repetition of a phrase, verse, or stanza? A) Verse. B) Refrain. C) Meter. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 2. Which word group could result in consonance? A) Ai. B) Ie. C) Th. D) Ea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Th. 3. TWO lines that rhyme. A) Alliteration. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 4. This kind of poem tells a story and may become a folk song. A) Lyrical poem. B) Ballad poem. C) Epic poem. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad poem. 5. Can Carrie count the crying canaries correctly? A) Rhyme. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 6. What is the definition of the term:simile? A) Figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else; it implies a comparison. B) A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. C) A combination of words, or parts of words, that contradict each other (deafening silence). D) Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figure of speech in which the words like or as are used to compare two apparently dissimilar items. 7. A poem of fourteen lines using s wide range of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line. The English form usually ends with a couplet A) Sonnet. B) Villanelle. C) Free Verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sonnet. 8. What is the rhyme scheme? "I dream of an ocean blueOne to sail on fast and trueI dream of an ocean clear as iceTo follow my dreams would be oh no so nice" A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABCD. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AABB. 9. What is it called when there is a repetition of CONSONANT sounds in nearby words? A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 10. There's a guy in a tux and he stands in the corner, / Feedin' the jukebox his dimes. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 11. "as soon as I heard the miau miau I tried to find where it was comming from ..... "is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Imagery. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 12. A couplet consist of ..... A) 1 line. B) 2 lines. C) 3 lines. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 lines. 13. How many lines is an Octave? A) 2. B) 4. C) 6. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 8. 14. Lacks strict structure; has no regular meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza pattern A) Free verse. B) Lyric. C) Concrete. D) Narrative. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 15. "Love is like fire" is an example of which form of figurative language? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. Shorter in length than a ballad; can sing or chant; praises a person, event, or thing A) Ode. B) Speaker. C) Lineation. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 17. Which two terms help out poets when making their poems fit a rhyme scheme without sacrificing their depth of meaning? A) Slant rhyme and Metaphor. B) Assonance and alliteration. C) Assonance and Slant rhyme. D) Synecdoche and hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance and Slant rhyme. 18. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem, creating a musical quality A) Hyperbole. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 19. A poem that doesn't follow a specific form, meter, or rhyme scheme, yet still conveys powerful feelings and ideas A) Odes. B) Sonnets. C) Haikus. D) Free verse poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse poetry. 20. When sounds of words are similar. Often, the end words have this in common. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. ← 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