This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 446 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 446 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the name for a four-line stanza? A) Couplet. B) Quatrain. C) Sonnet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quatrain. 2. "My friend is as sharp as a pencil, " is an example of which poetic device? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 3. "Their woes are over soon. Mine are not. Jason's are not." ~~ MEDEA A) Repetition. B) Incremental repetition. C) Multi-connectors. D) Oxymoron. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incremental repetition. 4. "I'm car sick, open a window I'm car sick, take this pill I'm car sick, rest your eyes I'm car sick, shhh be still" is an example of A) Repetition. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 5. A rhymed pair of lines. A couplet can be written in any rhythmic pattern. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Rhyming Couplet. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyming Couplet. 6. Lines or words that are repeated to stress the importance: A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 7. What type of figurative language is a word imitating a sound? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 8. Serves the same function as the narrator in a story:to "tell" the poem. A) Speaker. B) Meter. C) Rhythm. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 9. The repetition of consonant sounds (every sound besides vowel sounds) in neighboring words THAT DO NOT RHYME. A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 10. A group of lines arranged together that are set off from other groups by a space A) Form. B) Couplet. C) Quatrain. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanza. 11. Given human characteristics or traits to non-human things. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 12. A comparison giving human-like characteristics to a nonhuman or nonliving object. A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 13. Use of an object, person, place, or event that has both a meaning in itself and stands for something larger A) Personification. B) Symbolism. C) Hyperbole. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbolism. 14. "as light as a feather"What figurative language type would this be? A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 15. Repeated line or lines in a poem or song. A) Connotation. B) Alliteration. C) Dialect. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 16. Kevin's shades were drawn. The room was dark and he liked it that way. After the day he had, darkness was a welcomed friend. He felt like sunshine was so far away. The writer is creating a- A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Mood. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 17. Lines grouped together like a paragraph in a poem A) Line. B) Rhyme. C) Stanza. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 18. Which type of poetry does not adhere to a specific rhyme scheme or meter? A) Free verse. B) Sonnet. C) Ballad. D) Limerick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 19. A musical quality of a poem. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 20. A ..... is a comparison that DOES NOT use the words "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. ← 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