This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 389 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 389 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the rhyme scheme of this poem excerpt? Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream. A) AAABBCCDDEE. B) AAABBCCDDAA. C) AAABBCCDDBB. D) AABCCDDEEFF. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) AAABBCCDDBB. 2. A single row of words (like a sentence) A) Stanza. B) Sentence. C) Line. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 3. Linking words by repeating similar initial sounds A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Inversion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 4. A poem about dawn; a morning love song; or a poem about the parting of lovers at dawn A) Aubade. B) Ballad. C) Pastoral. D) Rhapsody. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aubade. 5. What is the definition of oxymoron?Ex:icy hot A) Combining two words with contrasting meaning. B) An exaggeration. C) A joke. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Combining two words with contrasting meaning. 6. "Eeny meeny miny moe; catch a tiger by its toes" is an example of: A) Simile. B) Rhyme. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 7. The devoted father was a rock for his family A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 8. The main idea or point of a text. A) Personification. B) Idiom. C) Summary. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 9. A figure of speech where words are not used in their literal sense, but rather in a figurative sense A) Trope. B) Synecdoche. C) Trochee. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trope. 10. Giving an inanimate objects human characteristics A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 11. What is repetition of similar sounding words? A) Line. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 12. Hiss, chirp, plop, buzz are all examples of which poetic device? A) Pun. B) Paradox. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Palindrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 13. Repetition of end sound A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 14. The literary technique of using words that sound like the word. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Form. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 15. An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 16. Same ending sounds of words A) Rhythm. B) Line. C) Rhyme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 17. SNOW, GLOW; HAPPY, PAPPY; SEA, ME; SQUIRREL, CURL are examples of A) Dumb words. B) End rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End rhyme. 18. What word is defined as "the pattern of rhyme in a poem" ? A) Repetition. B) Rhyme scheme (pattern). C) Line. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme scheme (pattern). 19. Anything that stands for something else. An example:Red rose symbolizes love A) Repetition. B) Symbol. C) Denotation. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 20. A group of words arranged into a row in a poem. A) Syntax. B) Cutting. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. ← 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