This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 323 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 323 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines of poetry. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Repetition. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 2. Which word means the "paragraph" in poetry? A) Stanza. B) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 3. This is the continued use of the same rhyme or pattern A) Flashback. B) Repetition. C) Foreshadowing. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. The attitude the writer takes toward a subject. A) Metaphor. B) Speaker. C) Tone. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tone. 5. What is the opposite of personification? A) Demystification. B) Objectification. C) Justification. D) Nullification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objectification. 6. A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a song or a poem, especially at the end of each stanza; a chorus. A) Repetition. B) Refrain. C) Parallel structure. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 7. A restatement of a text passage, or work giving the meaning in another form. A) Paraphrase. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paraphrase. 8. The repetition of the beginning consonant sounds A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 9. The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text. Ex. A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 10. A group of lines in a poem are ..... A) Form. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 11. Appeals means that something is ..... A) Make a "movie" in your mind while you read. B) Tell a funny story. C) Attractive or interesting. D) The voice of the person or object telling us the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attractive or interesting. 12. A group of lines forming the basic recording metric unit in a poem A) Speaker. B) Stanza. C) Symbol. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 13. A hyperbole is ..... A) A comparison WITHOUT using "like" or "as". B) A extreme exaggeration. C) A comparison using "like" or "as". D) Giving human qualities to an inanimate object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A extreme exaggeration. 14. Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect or emphasis A) Ballad. B) Stanza. C) Repetition. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 15. An unrhymed three-line lyric poem, usually focused on images from nature, in which lines 1 and 3 have five syllables and line 2 has seven syllables A) Haiku. B) Ballad. C) Formal verse. D) Blank verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 16. The sun smiled on the angry clouds. A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. A word or phrase which means something other than what is said. Ex. (It's raining cats and dogs) A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Idiom. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Idiom. 18. What is the purpose of "the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, " by Gordan Lightfoot? A) To tell about how much he loves the sea. B) To tell about an event in history. C) To tell about a friend of his named Edmund. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To tell about an event in history. 19. What form of figurative language repeats the same beginning consonant sound in a line? A) Alliteration. B) Symbol. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 20. Couplets A) A comparison of two things using like or as. B) Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme or meter. C) The repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems. D) Also known as sensory language; appeals to the 5 senses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of the same or similar sounds occurs in two or more words, usually at the end of lines in poems. ← 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