This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 440 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 440 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Greeks devastated the city of Troy in an outburst of the Trojan War, when Helen-the wife of King Menelaus-ran away with the prince of Troy. Apparently, Helen was a very beautiful woman from Greece, and was ultimately held responsible for the devastation of Troy. A) Stanza. B) Ballad. C) Mythological allusion. D) End rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mythological allusion. 2. Poetry that does not have any end rhyme A) Lyric. B) Narrative. C) Free Verse. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free Verse. 3. You gave me an idea to buy ice cream because I am craving it. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 4. Helps readers see, hear, smell, taste, or feel something. A) Sensory Language. B) Meter. C) Alliteration. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sensory Language. 5. A comparison that uses no connecting words. A) Cesura. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 6. Groups of lines are called ..... A) Sentences. B) Stanzas. C) Tony Danzas. D) Line groupings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanzas. 7. A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line, or the middle of the next. A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Sight rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 8. A poem that does not rhyme and doesn't follow any rules is called a ..... A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Free verse. D) Ballad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 9. Which vocabulary word is being defined? Describe one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 10. Words that rhyme perfectly. A) Partial rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Complete rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complete rhyme. 11. A group of words on one line with a number in the front A) Numbered line. B) Stanza. C) Rhyme. D) Poet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Numbered line. 12. What is this an example of? Phillip found four amphibians. A) Symbolism. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 13. The bruise on George's foot felt as big as an elephant. What are the words in blue an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 14. This use of words that describe a sound so that the readers can clearly "hear" them is called A) Rhyme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhythm. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 15. An expressive, imaginative piece of writing often arranged in lines having rhythm and rhyme. The patterns made by the sounds of the words have special importance. A) Phrases (frases). B) Poem (poem). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem (poem). 16. Moving from the present to an event that has happened earlier A) Flash forward. B) Foreshadow. C) Flashback. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flashback. 17. Group of lines in a poem separated by space A) Line. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Stanza. D) Lyric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 18. What poem has no set rules? A) Free verse. B) Lyrics. C) Parody. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 19. Describes words that have the same ending sound A) Stanza. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 20. Language sung, chanted, spoken, or written according to some pattern of recurrence that emphasizes the relationships between words on the basis of sound and sense . A) Poetry. B) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poetry. ← 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