This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 315 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 315 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A poem which has a series of rigid requirements, usually concerning meter and rhyme, and has a name, is called: A) Free verse. B) Closed form. C) Fixed form. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed form. 2. Verse that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm and rhyme, and is more like everyday speech A) Stanza. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 3. Euphony A) A term used for words in a riming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rimes. B) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). C) Occurs when the outcome of a work is unexpected, or events turn out to be the opposite from what one had expected. D) Pleasant, harmonious sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pleasant, harmonious sound. 4. What is simile in poetry? A) A comparison between two unlike ideas. B) Figure of speech, comparison using like or as. C) A detailed comparison that extends through multiple lines. D) A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figure of speech, comparison using like or as. 5. Which of the following best define poetry? A) A composition in verse. B) Has highly developed form. C) Uses heightened language and rhythm. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 6. The repetition of similar sounds. A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Lines. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 7. Language that appeals to the senses (taste, sight, touch, hear, smell) is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Allegory. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 8. A comparison that shows similarities between two things that are otherwise dissimilar A) Assonance. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Analogy. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Analogy. 9. Poems that require a fixed structure and pattern A) Closed. B) Free Verse. C) Fixed. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Closed. 10. Sound words-BAM! A) Onomatopoeia. B) Adjectives. C) Theme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 11. A verse of a poem; a group of lines A) Meter. B) Line. C) Stanza. D) Rhyme scheme. E) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 12. Repetition of sounds at the end of words, identical or very similar recurring final sounds in words usually at the end of lines of a poem, but not always A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 13. What is the topic of a Haiku? A) Sports. B) Hobbies. C) Music. D) Nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nature. 14. Language used in writing to make it more expressive A) Simile. B) Theme. C) Figurative Language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative Language. 15. Words that sound the same A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Meter. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. Play on words that makes a funny effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings A) Cliche. B) Pun. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pun. 17. The use of words which imitate sounds A) Personification. B) Rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 18. This is is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or poetry. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Repetition. D) Parallelism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 19. What kind of poem is 'Porphyria's Lover'? A) A haiku. B) A dramatic monologue. C) A villanelle. D) A sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dramatic monologue. 20. Comparing two things without the use of "like" or "as" A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 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