This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 356 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 356 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A type of rhyme in which the stressed vowel sounds in both words are identical A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) End Rhyme. D) Internal Rhyme. E) Exact Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Exact Rhyme. 2. A direct comparison of two items without using like or as A) Limerick. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Their hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Smoke Detector Warned Family The Greens were quite startled to hear the piercing scream of their smoke detector coming from inside their house on Sunday afternoon. "We were having a family barbecue in the backyard, so our first thought was that the smoke from the grill had somehow set off the alarm, " Larry Green recounted. "The smoke turned out to be from a batch of brownies that my mom was baking for dessert, " Rachel Green explained. What type of figurative language is used? A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 4. Lyrical poem A) A poem that expresses emotion. B) A poem that tells a story. C) The message about life that a poem seems to send. D) The feeling or atmosphere a poem sends off. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem that expresses emotion. 5. Spondee A) Group of lines making up a single unit; like a paragraph in prose. B) Stanza of 6 lines. C) Foot consisting of 2 syllables. D) Foot consisting of a stress followed by an unstressed syllable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot consisting of 2 syllables. 6. What is the term for the person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself in a poem? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Symbol. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbol. 7. Language arranged in lines w/ a regular rhythm & often rhyme scheme. A) Imagery. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Poetry. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 8. Which term describes the way a line of poetry 'runs on' to the next line without punctuation? A) Assonance. B) Sibilance. C) Enjambment. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enjambment. 9. A short phrase or sentence in one row, or line of a stanza A) Theme. B) Central Idea. C) Plot. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 10. The fact of two things being seen or placed close to the contrasting effect A) Paradox. B) Analogy. C) Juxtaposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Juxtaposition. 11. ..... is how to tell each stanza apart. A) Indent. B) Line breaks. C) Numbers. D) What is a stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Line breaks. 12. Figure of speech in which a part is used to designate the whole, or whole to designate a part. Example: "All hands on deck" means all men, not just their hands. A) Synecdoche. B) Trope. C) Metonymy. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 13. Which choice best represents the central idea of the poem? A) It's important to hide our emotions from the world. B) It's important to know more than other people. C) Our faces do not always show our real emotions. D) Everybody wears some kind of mask. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our faces do not always show our real emotions. 14. Comparisons between unrelated things or ideas to reveal the familiar in surprising ways. Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, imagery, and allusion are all types of this. A) Alliteration. B) Hyperbole. C) Symbolism. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Figurative Language. 15. Which is Hyperbole A) "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women are merely players;" (From "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare). B) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. C) "O my Luve is like a red, red roseThat's newly sprung in June;"(From "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns. D) "The light was creeping on the ground; she crept and did not make a sound" (James Stephens). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets. 16. Words that imitate the sound they're naming A) Onomatopoeia. B) Personification. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 17. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping, at my chamber door." Edgar Allan Poe A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 18. The repeating of vowel sounds A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 19. Poetry with no regular meter or rhyme scheme A) Haiku. B) Free Verse. C) Sonnet. D) Monologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free Verse. 20. Repeating consonant sounds is called A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhetorical Question. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. ← 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