This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 476 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 476 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. You are a cheetah A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. When rhymes follow a particular pattern A) Variations. B) Imagery. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Stanza break. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 3. The pattern of rhyming lines in poetry (ex:AABB, ABAB) A) Rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Rhyme scheme(rhyming pattern). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme(rhyming pattern). 4. ..... is a comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" . A) METAPHOR. B) IMAGERY. C) REPETITION. D) SIMILE. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) SIMILE. 5. This poetic device has a pause or break in the poem for emphasis A) Assonance. B) Cesura. C) Enjambment. D) Inversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cesura. 6. Who was Robert Browning married to? A) Mary Wollestonecraft. B) Lady Frances Wedderburn-Webster. C) Elizabeth Barrett. D) Augusta Leigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elizabeth Barrett. 7. The use of grammatically similar structures, be they nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, or larger structures. A) Paraphrase. B) Pun. C) Parallelism. D) Rhyme royal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parallelism. 8. What is language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling? A) Oxymoron. B) Figurative language. C) Quatrain. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Figurative language. 9. Which contains a correct example of assonance and the correct definition? A) The repetition of vowel sounds next to or within one word of eachother in a line such as in (lazy lions love). B) The repetition of ending consonant sounds next to or within one line of each other (ringing and raving). C) The repetition of vowel sounds next to or within one word of eachother in a line such as in (the quiet bias of silence). D) The repetition of ending consonant sounds next to or within one line of each other (the quiet bias of silence). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of vowel sounds next to or within one word of eachother in a line such as in (the quiet bias of silence). 10. Which of these is a pun? A) Your like a shark. B) What has eyes but can't see? A potato. C) He runs like a Puma. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) What has eyes but can't see? A potato. 11. A word that makes a noise or sound A) Hyperbole. B) Rhythm. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 12. A poem that tells a story. These poems often have all the elements of a short story, including characters, dialogue, setting, conflict, and plot. A) Narrative. B) Lyric. C) Limerick. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Narrative. 13. ..... is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 14. Which type of poems tell a story? A) Stanza. B) Narrative poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Narrative poem. 15. A metrical foot consisting of two short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed syllable. A) Trochee. B) Iamb. C) Anapest. D) Dactyl. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anapest. 16. Which of these means "giving nonhuman objects human characteristics?" A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Paradox. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 17. Each unit of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Poetry. B) Foot. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Couplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foot. 18. A comparison of two unlike objects A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. Occurs when rhyming words come at the ends of lines of poetry A) End rhyme. B) Internal rhyme. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End rhyme. 20. Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to place or thing, or a personified abstract idea A) Apostrophe. B) Hyperbole. C) Alliteration. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apostrophe. ← 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