This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 450 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 450 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A reference to a certain person, place, or event from the past ..... A) Allusion. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 2. The pattern that end rhymes form in a stanza or poem A) Quatrain. B) Stanza. C) Enjambment. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 3. What is the repeating of words, letters, sounds, lines, etc.? A) Alliteration. B) Repetition. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 4. Which word means a repeating pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables? A) Alliteration. B) Lyric. C) Meter. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meter. 5. A type of poem that isn't written with a strict rhyming pattern or stanza structure A) Narrative poem. B) Ballad. C) Free verse. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Free verse. 6. "Oh, the bells ..... /how they clang, and clash, and roar!" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Oxymoron. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 7. Which term means comparing two unlike things by saying one is the other? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Synecdoche. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 8. Which of the following is an example of enjambment?(a) The orphan arrived in outlandish hat, proud pain of new button boots.(b) Alone, she would cut her way through a new world's graystone chapels, the steep and sideways ..... A) A. B) B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. 9. Which is an example of "simile" ? A) The pumpkin was a large as a house. B) The pumpkin is a house. C) The pumpkin was yellow/orange. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pumpkin was a large as a house. 10. Saying "I could eat something" when you're starving and haven't had a meal in over 24 hours. A) Understatement. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Understatement. 11. To ..... is to see an image in your head. A) Rhyme scheme. B) Poetry. C) Visualize. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Visualize. 12. The basic straight-forward meaning A) Literal meaning. B) Figurative meaning. C) Alliteration. D) Denotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Literal meaning. 13. What is the definition of jargon? A) Technical or specialized language to a profession or group of people. B) The opposite of what is expected to happen. C) A statement that is contradictory to common sense. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Technical or specialized language to a profession or group of people. 14. A piece of verse, or poem, in which there is a regular recurrence of corresponding sounds, especially. at the ends of lines A) Rhyme. B) Repetition. C) Symbolism. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 15. 19 line form with a pattern of repeated lines and a specific rhyme scheme A) Epic poem. B) Ode. C) Villanelle. D) Shakespearean sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Villanelle. 16. Un-rhymed iambic pentameter is known as A) Slant rhyme. B) Blank verse. C) Free verse. D) Couplets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blank verse. 17. During brunch with his grandparents, Jacob was a real pig. What are the words in blue an example of? A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 18. A poem from japan with three lines, traditionally written about nature. A) Haiku. B) Limerick. C) Ballad. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haiku. 19. The measured arrangement of sounds or beats in a poem and how the poet places emphasis on syllables A) Meter. B) Metaphor. C) Free verse. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 20. The beat or 'sing-song' quality of the poem A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Ballad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. ← 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