This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 377 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 377 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a sentence in a poem continues beyond the end of a line, that is called ..... A) A couplet. B) Enjambment. C) Apostrophe. D) An oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Enjambment. 2. Leaving a car wash at the beginning of a downpour. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irony. 3. The pattern of end rhyme A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Slant Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme Scheme. 4. The repetition of syllable sounds is called ..... A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm/meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 5. ..... is the repetition of initial consonant sounds. A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 6. The poet's message to the reader A) Main idea. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Author's purpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theme. 7. This occurs when one line ends with a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line A) Enjambment. B) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enjambment. 8. True of False:The speaker and the poet are the same person. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. A phrase that puts an image in your head, like "the rain poured down, drenching the field and creating small swimming holes for all the animals" A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Imagery. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 10. That fat cat weighs a thousand pounds! A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 11. The most common sound device in poetry A) Mood. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 12. Multi-connector A) Kind of metaphor giving inanimate objects/abstract ideas human characteristics. B) Opposite of asyndeton; the repetition of conjunctions ex) fall & leap & run. C) Play on words that are identical or have similar sounds, but have diverse meanings. D) Pairing of similar sounding words, within/at ends of poetry lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite of asyndeton; the repetition of conjunctions ex) fall & leap & run. 13. A ..... is a repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. A) Retention. B) Refrain. C) Repeat. D) Recognize. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Refrain. 14. A lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, often elevated in style or manner A) Ode. B) Mood. C) Elegy. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ode. 15. Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of each line. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Syntax. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anaphora. 16. What technique shows the repetition of a vowel sound? A) Personification. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 17. A specific cultural phrase that is not meant to be taken literally A) Idiom. B) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 18. Two rhyming lines, one right after the first A) Alliteration. B) Image. C) Couplet. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Couplet. 19. A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter and expresses a single idea A) Hyperbole. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Couplet. 20. What do we call a comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" ? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← 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