This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 400 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 400 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. An implied comparison between two dissimilar things that have something in common. A) Similarly. B) Metaphor. C) Paradox. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. Words or phrases that mean something different from the literal meanings of the words A) Rhythm. B) Pattern. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 3. Poems requiring no pattern or structure A) Open. B) Fixed. C) Free Verse. D) Concrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 4. Last two lines in a sonnet A) Couple. B) Couplet. C) Four. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Couplet. 5. What type of figurative language is the following: "But still, like dust, I'll rise?" A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 6. Four-line stanza in a poem A) Quatrain. B) Couplet. C) Rhyme. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quatrain. 7. Read the following line: "The clear water sparkled in the sunlight." To which of our five senses does this mostly appeal? A) Sense of hearing. B) Sense of smell. C) Sense of sight. D) Sense of touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sense of sight. 8. What is the purpose of a metaphor in poetry? A) To represent something else. B) To compare two seemingly unlike things using 'like' or 'as'. C) To give human qualities to something that is not human. D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To describe one thing as if it were something else. 9. Which poetry term is being used in this example?If he forgets her birthday, he is a dead duck. A) Oxymoron. B) Metaphor. C) Theme. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. What is the term for the inexactness or uncertainty in a poem's meaning? A) Metaphor. B) Irony. C) Ambiguity. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambiguity. 11. What is when two or more words in the same line (or in close lines) that have similar vowel sounds (like browse and prowl) A) Alliteration. B) End rhyme. C) Free verse. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 12. A type of lyric poem that addresses broad, serious topics such as justice, truth, or beauty. A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Epic. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ode. 13. What is this an example of? Her cheeks are as red as a rose. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 14. An extreme exaggeration for the purpose of being dramatic or humorous A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains A) Tone. B) Stanza. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 16. The implied meaning of the words A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Free verse. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connotation. 17. An ..... is a paradox achieved by the use of words which seem to contradict one another. A) OxyClean. B) Moronic. C) Moronoxy. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oxymoron. 18. Bing, Bang, Boom A) Internal rhyme. B) Poetry. C) Onomatopoeia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 19. Group of two or more lines A) Stanza. B) Line. C) Refrain. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 20. The use of highly descriptive language which is meant to appeal to the reader's senses. It creates a mental image or feeling. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. ← 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