This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 416 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 416 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of the same sound at the beginning of the words. (the first letter) A) Stanza. B) Alliteration. C) Internal rhyme. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. The repetition of a consonant at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. The manner of speaking about one sense in terms of another. A) Figurative language. B) Symbolism. C) Synesthesia. D) Synecdoche. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synesthesia. 4. Withered and withdrawn, without will, Will winced as the wicked whispered. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 5. "The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM in the air." is an example of A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 6. "A worm named Maurice took the garden by storm, " is an example of ..... A) Consonance. B) Dissonance. C) Rhythm. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 7. A poem with 14 lines, iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg A) Elegy. B) Ode. C) English sonnet. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) English sonnet. 8. A group of lines that work together to express a central idea A) Stanza. B) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanza. 9. Which of the following definitions does NOT describe imagery? A) Words that appeal to a reader's senses. B) Uses sensory details to help the reader imagine how things look, feel, smell, sound, and taste. C) The main idea of a story. D) Helps the reader visualize what is going on in the story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The main idea of a story. 10. What does "Lines" mean in poetry? A) Flow of the beat of the poem. B) Repeating words, phrases, or lines of poetry. C) Flow of the beat of a poem. D) Group of words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Group of words. 11. What is a beat from the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Repetition. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 12. This is an example of:Playful waves ticklethe smooth rock, but seaweed hair ..... uncombed ..... hides its smile A) Haiku. B) Tanka. C) Quatrain. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 13. A sound, word, or line repeated regularly in a poem A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Form. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 14. "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" is what type of figurative language. A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Poetry. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 15. The poet's attitude towards the poem's speaker, reader, subject matter is called ..... ? A) Feelings. B) Tone. C) Thoughts. D) Emotions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tone. 16. Which of these is NOT imagery: A) I shivered as the wind whipped around my shoulders. B) The fairground was awash with aromas of delicious fried foods. C) The puppy only sold for $ 5 at the pet auction. D) The crimson flowers danced in the meadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The puppy only sold for $ 5 at the pet auction. 17. An expression used whose meaning is not created entirely from the words is known as a what? A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idiom. 18. When a poet ends a line with punctuation; meant to establish a pause A) Narrative. B) Enjambment. C) End-stop. D) Sound devices. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) End-stop. 19. Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme is called ..... A) Couplet. B) Free verse. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 20. Type of meter that has (3) syllables, ( stressed$\rightarrow$ unstressed$\rightarrow$unstressed) A) Iamb. B) Trochee. C) Spondee. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dactyl. ← 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