This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 345 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 345 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference to another piece of work (writing, movie, pop culture) within a text. "We aren't in Kansas anymore" would be an ..... to the Wizard of Oz. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Repetition. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 2. Big bumbling bumblebees rode light, lilting breezes A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of the Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. The pattern of end rhyme in a poem Ex. (aabba) A) Rhyme. B) Internal Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 4. He is the only honest thief. A) PARADOX. B) OXYMORON. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OXYMORON. 5. A poem that has no regular patterns in line length, rhyme, or rhythym A) Stanza. B) Tone. C) Free verse. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 6. This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line. Ex. If this were a poem, this would bean example of the technique. A) Enjambment. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 7. Poems are often written in paragraphs called ..... A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Letters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 8. A pun uses like or as? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. An animal is given human-like qualities or an object is given life-like qualities A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 10. A unit of poetic lines A) Repetition. B) Open verse. C) Fixed verse. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 11. The repetition of a single consonant sound in words that are close together. A) Alliteration. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 12. A type of figurative language that gives human characteristics to something nonhuman. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 13. ..... is the central message or meaning of the poem. A) RHYME. B) METER. C) THEME. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THEME. 14. Giving an animal or object human characteristics A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 15. Two lines back to back that rhyme. Known because it is used by many famous poets and authors. A) Refrain. B) Stanza. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Balled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming Couplet. 16. Change in focus, point of view, time, or tone in a poem A) Shift or turn. B) Stanza. C) Rhythm. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shift or turn. 17. Last words of lines have perfect rhyme A) End rhyme. B) Slant rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) External rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 18. Which of the following is the definition of imagery? A) When an author gives human characteristics to an inanimate object. B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. C) When an author describes something by saying that it IS something else. D) When an author describes something by saying that it is LIKE (or AS) something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A picture you see in your mind when you read a poem. 19. The trees whispered their songs of spring A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 20. Visually descriptive language..... A) The five senses. B) Imagery. C) Imagination. D) Illusions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. ← 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