This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 301 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 301 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An amusing or funny verse with five lines. It has 3 long lines which rhyme and 2 short lines that rhyme A) Acrostic. B) Limerick. C) Shape poetry. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 2. A ..... in a poem means words that are written in a row. A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Alliteration. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line. 3. Chapbook A) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. B) Close repetition of vowel sounds. C) A small book of about 24-50 pages. D) A brief ending no more than 4 lines long; summary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A small book of about 24-50 pages. 4. A reference to a famous person, place, event, or work of literature or art A) Allusion. B) Illusion. C) Elusion. D) Collusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 5. Buzz; growl; gulp; slither; bang A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 6. The pictures you see in your mind when you read a poem. A) Tone. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 7. A literary device that involves using the same word or phrase over and over again in a piece of writing or speech A) Conflict. B) Foreshadowing. C) Greek values. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 8. Read the poem below and identify the rhyme scheme. I smelled the scent of a rose, I inhaled the scent through my nose. While allergic to pollen, A sneeze came a callin' And knocked me right off of my toes. A) ABABB. B) ABCAB. C) THE FATHER. D) There is no rhyme scheme in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THE FATHER. 9. The way words and lines are laid out on a page A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 10. Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 11. Rhyming words placed WITHIN a line of poetry. A) External rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Ballad. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 12. Words that appeal to your 5 senses (smell, taste, touch, sight, hearing). A) Imagery. B) Free verse. C) Poetry. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 13. The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, poem, or other literary work. A) Verse. B) Theme. C) Mood. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 14. What sound device is in line 2?Then suddenly one awful day, She heard the Magic Mirror say, "From now on Queen you're number two, Snow White is prettier than you!" A) Rhythm. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 15. What is the rhyme scheme? Roses are red Violets are blue I am Ted So are you A) ABC. B) AABB. C) Father. D) AAAB. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 16. One row of words in a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 17. Which is a Simile A) "Talked my head offWorked my tail offCried my eyes out"(Shel Silverstein). B) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. D) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. 18. Repetition of the initial consonant sounds A) Internal rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 19. What is the definition of personification in poetry? A) Attributing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. B) Creating a metaphor by comparing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. C) Describing human emotions through non-human objects or abstract ideas. D) Using non-human objects or abstract ideas to represent human qualities. tagsCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attributing human qualities to non-human objects or abstract ideas. 20. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter A) Blank verse. B) Falling meter. C) Free verse. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blank verse. ← 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