This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 357 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 357 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Descriptions that appeal to the five senses and create vivid word pictures A) Alliteration. B) Interpretation. C) Denotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 2. An author's attitude toward his or her subject. A) Metaphor. B) Tone. C) Mood. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 3. The use of words whose sound makes one think of its meaning A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Poetry. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 4. A group of words that are repeated several times in a poem (like the chorus of a song) A) Rhyme scheme. B) Refrain. C) Repetition. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 5. A generally recurring subject or idea noticeably evident in a literary work A) Rhyme. B) Verse. C) Cutting. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 6. A Rhyme that occurs within the lines A) Internal Rhymes. B) Exact Rhymes. C) Rhythm. D) Slant Rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal Rhymes. 7. Intentional reuse of sound, word, or phrase to emphasize an idea A) Repetition. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Rooms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 8. A 14-line poem with a set rhyme scheme and a particular syllable pattern called iambic pentameter. Different types of sonnets have different rhyme schemes. A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Stanza. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 9. Syntax A) The basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. B) A humorous verse of three long and two short lines rhyming AABBA. C) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. D) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. 10. "The rain was like a little mouse" A) Synesthesia. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 11. In many folktales, the coyote represents evil. In this example, the coyote is an example of a ..... A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 12. Lazy leaping lizards like licking luscious lollipops-this is an example of ..... A) Poetry. B) Assonance. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 13. The moon is washing windows, Dancing off the glass, Resting on the praying treesAnd painting the sleeping grass. A) Father. B) ABCB. C) AABB. D) ABCA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ABCB. 14. This sentence appeals to which sense:After eating the curry, his breath reeked of garlic. A) Smell. B) Touch. C) Taste. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smell. 15. A question asked to make a point rather than in expectation of an answer. A) Irony. B) Rhetorical Question. C) Ode. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhetorical Question. 16. When words at the ends of lines rhyme, also known as end rhyme A) External rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Couplet. D) Cadence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) External rhyme. 17. A statement that is self-contradictory or silly, but truthful "Your enemy's friend is your enemy." A) Paradox. B) Oxymoron. C) Irony. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Paradox. 18. Ballads A) Songlike poems that tell stories. B) Poetry with no regular meter, rhyme, or pattern. C) Poetry with each line rhyming. D) A 3-lined Japanese verse form. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Songlike poems that tell stories. 19. What is a regular pattern of rhymed words at the end of a line of poetry called? A) Repetition. B) Rhythm/Meter. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 20. Formation of a word that has a sound associated with it A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. ← 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