This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 474 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 474 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Is the repetition of ending syllable sounds A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Meter. D) Patter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 2. The repetition of same or similar sounds at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 3. A seeming contradiction that is nonetheless true. Example: "I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born." Henry David Thoreau A) Palindrome. B) Paradox. C) Personification. D) Poetic license. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paradox. 4. The repetition of inner vowel (a-e-i-o-u) sounds in nearby words A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 5. The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Rhythm. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 6. "The squeaky wheel gets the grease" is an example of ..... because it has repeated vowel sounds. A) Assonance. B) Consonance. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 7. Narrative Free Verse Poem A) A lyric poem usually marked by serious, respectful, and exalted feelings toward the subject. B) A poem written in the shape of the topic or the theme of the poem. C) An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud or through poetry. D) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A free verse poem written in various ways, usually about a topic that is familiar. 8. This is the giving of human traits to nonhuman things. A) Humanification. B) Humanism. C) Personification. D) Perfectionism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. What vocabulary word means:Work jointly on an activity, especially to produce to create something, cooperate on a project A) Idiom. B) Biosterous. C) Collaborate. D) Rigorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collaborate. 10. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Denotation. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 11. One thousand stampeding bison thundering across the plainsCouldn't drown out the sound of my heart beating for you. This is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Pathetic fallacy. C) Synonyms. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 12. "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard." This line has ..... in it. A) Internal rhyme. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 13. Roses are Red, Violets are blue, My friend's name is Ted, and he is taller than you. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem above? A) A, B, A, B. B) A, A, A, C. C) A, A, B, B. D) A, B, C, D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A, B, A, B. 14. Words that seem to rhyme because they are spelled identically but pronounced differently. Example:bear/fear, dough/cough/through/bough A) Eye rhyme:. B) Slant rhyme:. C) Rhyme scheme:. D) Scansion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eye rhyme:. 15. A brief, sometimes indirect, reference in a text to a person, place, or thing A) Allusion. B) Cutting. C) Personification. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 16. The combination of assonance and consonance ..... The cat in the hat chased the rate. A) Rhyme. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Symbolism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 17. Repeating the same sounds at the ends of words or lines A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 18. What word means having or ending with a sound that corresponds to another. A) Rhyme. B) Connotation. C) Personification. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 19. My brothers are stingrays, calm until provoked. A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 20. When a writer refers to another character, place, thing, or literary work is called ..... A) Allusion. B) Personification. C) Theme. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. ← 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