This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 34 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 34 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A humorous poem that contains 5 lines and rhyme scheme aabba. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 2. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem, set apart by a line of space A) Rhythm. B) Stanza. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 3. This sentence appeals to which sense:The tree bark was rough against her skin. A) Touch. B) Taste. C) Sound. D) Sight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Touch. 4. The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, especially vowel sounds: "Thou still unravished bride of quietness, / Thou foster child of silence and slow time" ("Ode to a Grecian Urn, " John Keats). A) Alexandrine. B) Assonance. C) Antithesis. D) Anapest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 5. The main unit of a poem A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Line. 6. A series of lines grouped together in order to divide a poem. They look like little paragraphs. A) Tone. B) Verse. C) Stanza. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 7. The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginnings of words, as in tongue twisters A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Assonance. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. Carpe Diem A) A term that has lost its freshness due to overuse. B) A satisfying conclusion or sense of completion. C) Seize the day a poetic theme urging the audience to make use of the passing day. D) An extended, elaborate and far fetched analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Seize the day a poetic theme urging the audience to make use of the passing day. 9. That spider was bigger than an entire mansion! A) Exaggeration. B) Hyper. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 10. A limerick has how many lines? A) 2. B) 3. C) 4. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 11. Allusions are based primarily on A) Personal intuition. B) Shared knowledge. C) Imaginative comparisons. D) Cultural symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shared knowledge. 12. "So Eden sank to grief" is an example of ..... A) Imagery. B) Allusion. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 13. Sally had a smile that rivaled that of the Mona Lisa A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 14. A writing technique in which similar sounds at the beginning of words is repeated. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. Which is the correct defintion end-stopped line? A) A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. B) A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg. C) Unrhymed iambic pentameter. D) A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A line ending in a full pause, usually indicated with a period or semicolon. 16. The repetition of consonant sounds A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. A line or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem; usually after every stanza A) Internal rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Free verse. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 18. What is the definition of a simile? A) A literary device that uses the words 'like' or 'as' to create a visual comparison between two unrelated things. B) A type of metaphor that uses the words 'like' or 'as' to compare two different things. C) A figure of speech that compares two similar things using the words 'like' or 'as'. D) A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words 'like' or 'as'. 19. The repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text. These alike sounds can appear anywhere in the word, but will usually be found at its end or middle, or at the end of the stressed syllable. A) Symbol. B) Verse. C) Assonance. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. 20. The author's attitude towards their piece of writing A) Tone. B) Mood. C) Hyperbole. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. ← 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