This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 455 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 455 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The use of very descriptive, sonsory language A) Quatrain. B) Meter. C) Idiom. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imagery. 2. Poem of mortal loss and consolation A) Elegy. B) Ballad. C) Blank Verse. D) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elegy. 3. Which type of poetry is usually set to a musical rhythm? A) Ballad. B) Epic. C) Elegy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 4. The repetition of the same (or similar) vowel or consonant sounds or constructions. A rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry is called an end rhyme. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Enjambment. D) Cutting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 5. ..... takes place when two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds. A) Arachnophobia. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Agoraphobia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 6. One line in a poem A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Verse. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Verse. 7. A symbolic work in which characters, events, and settings represent cultural concepts. Characters are often abstractions personified. A) Counterpoint. B) Conceit. C) Dark humor. D) Allegory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allegory. 8. This is the meaning, moral, or main message that the writer wishes to share with the reader. A) Point. B) Stanza. C) Lesson. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Theme. 9. What is a single line in a poem? A) Stanza. B) Rhyme. C) Line. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Verse. 10. A comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as. A) Onomatopoeia. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 11. The repeated use of words, phrases, lines, ideas, or stanzas in a poem for effect or emphasis. A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 12. Repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby words A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 13. A form of repetition in which only the beginning of phrases are repeated. A) Symbolism. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anaphora. 14. What is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem? A) Rhyme scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Rhythm. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 15. The name of a 5-line poem that begins with a noun and end with a synonym for the noun in the first line. A) Cinquain. B) Quatrain. C) Haiku. D) Tanka. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinquain. 16. The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Couplet. C) Free verse. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 17. A poem that is structured as a story/narrative A) Ballad. B) Consonance. C) Meter. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 18. A kind of metaphor that uses like or as to compare two things:A is like B A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Theme. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 19. Language that appeals to the senses. Helps the reader imagine look, sound, touch, smell, taste. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Imagery. D) Perspective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 20. Compares two unlike things without using like or as A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 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