This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 363 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 363 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This can be the poet OR an invented character who has had an experience that is written about. A) Stanza. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Speaker. D) Lyric poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speaker. 2. What is being compared in the following line? "Our hearts, though stout and brave, still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave." from "A Psalm of Life" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A) Drums and grave. B) Drums and funeral marches. C) Hearts and drums. D) Stout and brave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hearts and drums. 3. Which type of poem is free from any specific rhythm, stanzas, or line measurements? A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 4. The breeze whispered through the trees A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 5. Using words that sound like their meanings A) Imagery. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 6. Josh acts like a clown to try to impress the ladies This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 7. The comparison of two things that are not really alike by using the words like or as is called ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 8. Rhyme involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same A) Exact rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Approximate/near rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Approximate/near rhyme. 9. It was raining cats and dogs this morning. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 10. My dog died on my birthday causing me to feel ..... A) Discorded. B) Domioned. C) Dismayed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dismayed. 11. The ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of lines in a poem A) Rhyme. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme. 12. Five feet in a line of poetry A) Monometer. B) Dimeter. C) Three meters. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pentameter. 13. Something that stands for something else A) Tone. B) Theme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 14. A group of lines in a poem, often separated by a space and sharing a specific pattern or rhyme scheme. A) Stanza. B) Imagery. C) Symbolism. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 15. ..... are words with the same ending sounds at the end of lines or stanzas A) Rhyming words. B) Rhythm. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyming words. 16. Words that rhyme inside a line. A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Partial rhyme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal rhyme. 17. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a line or stanza to add emphasis. An example:At that mat sat Pat who liked to bat. A) Consonance. B) Meter. C) Couplet. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 18. "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won." is an example of: A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 19. Descriptive language that invokes any of the five senses to create a set of mental images for the reader A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 20. An oxymoron is ..... A) A sentence in logic that cannot be true, but also cannot be false. B) A phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A phrase made of two or more words that actually have opposite meanings. ← 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