This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 414 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 414 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." Ex:Love is like a battlefield. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 2. A stated comparison of two things not using the words like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Prose. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 3. Attitude a write takes toward a subject A) Tone. B) Connotation. C) Refrain. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 4. "To be or not to be-that is the question"The pause that happens in the middle of this famous Shakespeare line is considered which structure of poetry? A) Cesura. B) Refrain. C) Stanza. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cesura. 5. A Haiku is a Japanese poem. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 6. What do we call a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, attitudes, or characteristics? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Imagery. E) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 7. Words that kind of rhyme, but not perfectly. A) Partial rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Internal rhyme. D) Complete rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Partial rhyme. 8. The repetition of words or phrases to emphasize an idea is called A) Repetition. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 9. Repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants as in "blade" and "maze" A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 10. What word refers to representing one person, object, or idea by using something else? A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Voice. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Symbolism. 11. Marjorie is as quiet as a mouse A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 12. A funny poem with 5 lines. A) Poet. B) Limerick. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limerick. 13. What is this an example of: "To Tony's Pizza I went / Many dollars I spent." A) Inversion. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Denotation. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inversion. 14. Exaggerating something more than it is. A) Hyperbole. B) Denotation. C) Connotation. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 15. The race car driver got a ticket for driving too slowly on the freeway. This is an example of ..... A) Situational Irony. B) Verbal Irony. C) Dramatic Irony. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational Irony. 16. The "beat" or the regular pattern of sounds found in some poems A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Simile. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 17. A group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin. A) Quartet. B) Stanza. C) Line. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Line. 18. Stanza of 4 lines with alternating rhymes A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Cinquain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 19. Poetry that doesn't have any regular meter or rhyme scheme A) Blank verse. B) Long verse. C) Free verse. D) Middle verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 20. The band played as loud as a sonic boom. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Eardrums. 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