This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 478 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 478 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Sally saw a starfish singing by the sea" is an example of A) Allegory. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Cesura. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 2. Words or phrases in writing that should not be taken literally: A) Antonyms. B) Sensory details. C) Figurative language. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figurative language. 3. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 4. Finding the meaning of the poem is called A) Attitude. B) Connotation. C) Paraphrase. D) Shift. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 5. Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. A) Limerick. B) Ballad. C) Haiku. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 6. "The wave was a tall monster" is an example of: A) Meter. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 7. The pattern of rhyme A) Blank verse. B) Free verse. C) Rhyme. D) Rhyme scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme scheme. 8. "Nature's first green is gOLD, Her hardest hue to hOLD.Her early leaf's a flOWER;But only so an hOUR."is an example of A) Rhyme. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 9. The repetition of vowel sounds, like the ones in "Hear the mellow wedding bells! From the molten, golden notes!" is an example of which sound device? A) Alliteration. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 10. The pattern of beats or stresses in language. A) Stress. B) Scansion. C) Rhythm. D) Cadence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 11. Tells of dramatic or emotional stories/situations (popular pop songs) (a narrative set to music) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Ballad. C) Lineation. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 12. Repetition of similar consonant sounds at the end of accented syllables as in "wind" and "sand" A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Meter. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 13. Words that express sensory details A) Imagery. B) Mood. C) Refrain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 14. An imaginative comparison where one thing is said to be another thing (My brother's room is a pigsty.) A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 15. The repetition of the same ending sound in two or more words A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Consonance. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 16. The ..... of a word refers to other words, ideas, images that we associate with a specific word (i.e. "red" is associated with fire, blood, or anger). A) Denotation. B) Connotation. C) Allusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connotation. 17. Anaphora can best be defined as ..... A) The repetition of vowel sounds. B) The repetition of consonant sounds. C) The repetition of a word or phrase. D) The repetition of rhyme/meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The repetition of a word or phrase. 18. Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds (Ex. Lamp/Stamp) A) Rhyme. B) End Rhyme. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Near Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 19. In a book or poem the author will tend to use imagery or ..... to better explain ideas. A) A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. B) Language that appeals to the senses and creates an image in the reader's mind. C) A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. D) Sources of information; such as a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Language that appeals to the senses and creates an image in the reader's mind. 20. The repeating of beginning consonant sounds in a group of words. A) Rhythm. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. ← 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