This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 445 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 445 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the word. A) Cadence. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Prosody. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 2. The author's attitude toward writing A) Tone. B) Limerick. C) Rhyme. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tone. 3. Today is very boring, it's a very boring day, there is nothing much to look at, there is nothing much to say. There's a peacock on my sneakers, there's a penguin on my head, there's a dormouse on my doorstep; I am going back to bed. A) Bored. B) Tired. C) Fanciful. D) Exciting. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bored. 4. Use of words that imitate sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 5. What is Ms. Cattell's favorite animal at the moment? Hint:Jack likes this animal too even though he denies it. A) Dogs/Puppies. B) Cats/Kittens. C) Horses/foals. D) Zebras. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cats/Kittens. 6. Anything that is not poetry is called A) Essay. B) Lyrics. C) Prose. D) Academia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prose. 7. Literal or dictionary definition of a word A) Denotation. B) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Denotation. 8. When human qualities are given to nonhuman things. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Allusion. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 9. Three meters A) A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. B) Meter containing metrical feet that move from unstressed to stressed syllables. C) 3 beats per measure. D) 3 feet per line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3 feet per line. 10. Using humans qualities to describe nonhuman things. A) Poem. B) Figurative Language. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 11. A brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art is A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Assonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 12. Love is like a roseSometimes it dies, sometimes it growsBreak-ups are a lot like waterWhen they're ice coldthey are always harder A) Prose. B) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Verse. 13. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG This is an example of a ..... A) Rhyme scheme. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 14. "I love this game like the winter loves snow" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Repetition. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 15. A longer direct comparison A) Comparable metaphor. B) Metaphor. C) Longer metaphor. D) Extended metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extended metaphor. 16. How a text is organized A) Meter. B) Stanza. C) Lines. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Structure. 17. A figure of speech in which contradictory terms are combined is known as ..... A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxymoron. 18. The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet's placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line is A) Diction. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Meter. 19. Poem that expresses the speaker's personal thoughts or feelings A) Tercet. B) Lyric poem. C) Free verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lyric poem. 20. Repetition of vowel sounds in words A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. ← 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