This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 404 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 404 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Uses words and phrases to create "mental images" for the reader A) Imagery. B) Sensory language. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 2. An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning andsignificance. A) Pun. B) Synecdoche. C) Importance. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbol. 3. The repetition of similar consonant sounds in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung. A) Limerick. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Prose. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ballad. 5. Which of the following is NOT an onomatopoeia? A) YOOOO!. B) HEY!. C) POWW!. D) WAM!. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) HEY!. 6. A direct comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words "like" or "as" in the comparison. It often uses "is" in the comparison. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 7. A haiku has exactly 5 lines. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 8. The use of words which imitate its sound A) Metaphor. B) Interjection. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 9. What are rhyming words at the end of two or more lines of a poem? A) Line breaks. B) Lyrical poem. C) End rhyme. D) Internal rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End rhyme. 10. A song like poem that tells a story, featuring a specific rhyme scheme is called ..... A) Ballad. B) Limerick. C) Haiku. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 11. Reading a poem several times will NOT increase your understanding A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 12. How many lines is a Couplet A) 7. B) 9. C) 2. D) 27. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 13. A division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together usually in a repeating pattern or rhythm and rhyme A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Hyperbole. E) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Stanza. 14. Which one of these could be a personification? A) He is as slow as a turtle. B) The tornado ran through town without a care. C) BOOM!!. D) I'm just too lazy to pick another answer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The tornado ran through town without a care. 15. Splat, zoom, buzz, whirl are examples of (a) A) A Naming. B) Tomato farms. C) Consonance. D) Soundies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Naming. 16. The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of connected or closely connected words. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 17. Substitution of a part for a whole A) Juxtaposition. B) Synecdoche. C) Allusion. D) Metonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synecdoche. 18. When making an inference, the most important thing is ..... A) What you know about the topic. B) The topic of the text. C) The characters in the text. D) Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text. 19. One line of poetry written in meter; a stanza of a long poem or hymn A) Verse. B) Alliteration. C) Tone. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verse. 20. Giving human characteristics to non-human objects/ideas A) Paradox. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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