This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 370 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 370 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the definition of the term:Personification? A) A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. B) Anything that stands for something else. In addition to having its own meaning and reality; also represents abstract ideas. C) A combination of words, or parts of words, that contradict each other (deafening silence). D) A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics. 2. Two or more lines of poetry that have the same ending sounds A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) Rhetorical question. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 3. Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Imagery. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 4. Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Free verse. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 5. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. An example:Alice the alligator always allows me to have an allowance. A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Imagery. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 6. Descriptions that appeal to one or more of the five senses A) Imagery. B) Details. C) Connotation. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 7. The use of words that begin with the same beginning sound near one another. A) Repetition. B) Literal language. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 8. What is one line of a poem? A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Stanza. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse. 9. Shows the speaker's attitude toward his/her subject. A) Tone. B) Symbol. C) Theme. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mood. 10. Shows a poem's rhyming pattern. A) Pattern. B) Meter. C) Theme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme Scheme. 11. The repetition of similar sounds at the ends of words A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Refrain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 12. Words or phrases that appeal to any of the five senses or any combination of senses A) Onomatopoeia. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 13. What is the term for when two words within a single line of poetry rhyme? A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Stanza. D) Internal Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Rhyme. 14. Imagery is language that appeals everything EXCEPT A) Sight. B) Smell. C) Taste. D) Driving ability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Driving ability. 15. Which term means:prose that resembles poetry A) Rondeau. B) Tanka. C) Prose poem. D) Sonnet. E) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose poem. 16. A poem for the dead A) Ballad. B) Elegy. C) Free verse. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 17. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the ends of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consonance. 18. What is simile? A) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. B) Direct comparison between two unlike things. It does not use the words like or as. C) A pattern of rhymes at the end of each line. The first end sound is represented as the letter a, the second b, etc. The ending of certain lines rhyme with each other. D) Repetition of initial consonant sounds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas. 19. A seven-line stanza A) Quatrain. B) Cinquain (Quintain, Quintet). C) Sestet (Sextet). D) Octave (Octet). E) Seven. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Seven. 20. Rhyme scheme helps keep ..... and can make the poem fun. A) Rhymes. B) The poem going. C) Me awake. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. ← 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