This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 343 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 343 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Similarity of vowel sounds and all sounds after the vowel in the relevantwords. A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) Similarly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 2. What is colloquial language? A) Very formal language. B) Chatty, everday language. C) Repetitive language. D) Poetic language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chatty, everday language. 3. The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line couplet, or stanze A) Step over. B) Assonance. C) Repetition. D) Lining Out. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Step over. 4. A "shift" in a poem is a change in the speakers A) Theme. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Tone and mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone and mood. 5. A poem that presents a vivid picture, sometimes with suggestions of spiritual insight; normally three lines long. A) Sonnet. B) Tempo. C) Monologue. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 6. Repetition of initial consonant sounds (mama makes marshmallow pie) A) Rhyme. B) Allusion. C) Alliteration. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 7. The way the poet chooses to arrange lines in the poem. A) Line. B) Sentence. C) Paragraph. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 8. Comparisons between two unlike things using like or as A) Simile. B) Idiom. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words A) Approximate rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Couplets. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 10. Central idea is defined as ..... A) A word that sounds like what it means, like "buzz, " "click, " or "bang.". B) A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art. C) The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader; also known as theme. D) Descriptive words and phrases that appeal to any of the five senses; often creates an image in the reader's mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader; also known as theme. 11. One written line of poetry A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 12. Identify the figurative language used:Her hair danced in the wind while she skipped through the golden meadow. A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. Using words that have the same (or very similar) ending sound is called A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 14. What is the Rhyme Scheme of the following: "The people along the sandAll turn and look one way.They turn their back on the land.They look at the sea all day." A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABCD. D) ABBA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 15. The repetition of the ending of sounds in words that are near each other in a poem A) Rhyme. B) Stanza. C) Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive format, style, and rhythm. A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Oxymoron. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Poetry. 17. This another word for huge exagerration A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 18. A refrain in poetry is A) The repetition on initial consonant sounds. B) Repeated lines/phrases in a poem. C) Repeated beginning sounds. D) Repeating the same word in every line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repeated lines/phrases in a poem. 19. The repetition of the same or similar initial consonant sounds is A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Rhyme. D) Rythym. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 20. The word "comedy' is an example of a what type of meter? A) Trochee. B) Anapest. C) Iamb. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dactyl. ← 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