This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 317 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 317 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 'Their love outshone even that of Romeo and Juliets' is an example of ..... A) Alliteration. B) MLA Citation. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. One of the divisions of a poem, usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines (kind of like a paragraph in prose) A) Rhythm. B) Quatrain. C) Couplet. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 3. Did you know that not all deserts arehot? Both hot and cold deserts are verydry, but unlike hot deserts, cold deserts have longwinters when the temperatures can reach belowfreezing. Cold deserts also get a great deal ofsnow, which is certainly not true for hot deserts. A) Compare and contrast. B) Problem and solution. C) Description. D) Sequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compare and contrast. 4. What is Lyric A) Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in a highly musical verse. B) To give human qualities to something that is not human. C) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in a highly musical verse. 5. A short poem with three lines and a 5-7-5 syllable pattern is called a? A) A long poem. B) Hike. C) Nature. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 6. What is a comparison using the words like or as? A) Simile. B) Figurative Language. C) Metaphor. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. Author uses words that appeal to senses (sight, touch, smell, sound, taste) A) Form. B) Imagery. C) Figurative language. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 8. What is a group of lines in a poem called ("paragraph")? A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 9. Message or universal understanding that the poem explores A) Poem. B) Tone. C) Theme. D) Point of View. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Theme. 10. "Muggles" belong in which book/movie series? A) Twilight. B) Harry Potter. C) Hunger Games. D) The Incredibles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Harry Potter. 11. Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme is an example of what? A) Stanza. B) Couplet. C) Syntax. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 12. Vivid description of things seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted A) Theme. B) Sensory Details. C) Imagery. D) Sound Devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. Rhyming within the line-not at the end. A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Internal rhyme. 14. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables A) Assonance. B) Iambic pentameter. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 15. This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 16. IDENTIFY THE RHYME SCHEMETrue friends are by your sideThrough it allTrue friends are thereTo catch you when you fall. A) ABCB. B) Father. C) ABCC. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) ABCB. 17. An exaggeration for humorous effect or emphasis A) Personification. B) Apostrophe. C) Hyperbole. D) Farce. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 18. Long (book length) narrative in verse form that retells a heroic journey. A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Epistle. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic. 19. A writer's voice and attitude in a piece. A) Lyric Poem. B) Symbol. C) Tone. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 20. The snow is a white blanket. Metaphor? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. ← 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