This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 320 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 320 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of words or phrases whose sounds suggest their meanings. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 2. An "allusion" is a reference to what? A) A well-known place. B) A well-known event. C) A well-known work of art or literature. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 3. Give an example of alliteration in a poem. A) The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. B) Sally sells seashells by the seashore. C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. D) Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 4. Comparison between two things using like or as A) Symbol. B) Stanza. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 5. Metaphors compare using like or as A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 6. Who is the speaker in a poem? A) The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. B) The audience of a poem. C) The author of a poem. D) The subject of a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The imaginary voice a poet uses when writing a poem. 7. What is the definition of the term:Near/Slant Rhyme? A) Rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry. B) The rhyming words have the exact same pattern of spelling or pronunciation. C) Rhyming words have similar, but not perfect patterns of sounds. D) Rhyme within a line of poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming words have similar, but not perfect patterns of sounds. 8. What is the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Lyrics. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meter. 9. The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Haiku. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 10. Any of the faculties, such as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which we perceive the world A) Senses. B) Poetry. C) Verse. D) Syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Senses. 11. Simile or Metaphor:My sister is like an angel in my life. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. The rhythm of a piece of poetry, determined by the number and length of feet in a line A) Ballad. B) Free Verse. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 13. A term or phrase that cannot be understood by a literal translation, but refers instead to a figurative meaning that is understood through common use A) Idiom. B) Meter. C) Whatever Ms. Johnstun says. D) Apostrophe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 14. What is the correct definition for the following poetic devise:simile A) Exaggerated statement to highten effect. B) Direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as. C) Implied comparison between 2 unlike things-NO like or as. D) Repreated words at the beginning or within words. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as. 15. Which type of poems began as folk songs, typically tell stories, and are organized in lines of four (ABAB rhyme scheme)? A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Limerick. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 16. Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of two or more words within the same line A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 18. The heroic couplet is characterized by A) Iambic tetrameter. B) Trochaic tetrameter. C) Spondaic pentameter. D) *iambic pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) *iambic pentameter. 19. What is the term for the emotional atmosphere of a poem? A) Temperature. B) Rhythm. C) Color. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 20. Most poems have rythme like a musical piece. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. ← 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