This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 48 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 48 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem A) Rhyme scheme. B) Couplet. C) Cinquain. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme scheme. 2. The ordered pattern of rhyme in a poem A) Rhyme Scheme. B) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme Scheme. 3. What is personification in poetry? A) Nonhuman subject given human characteristics. B) A detailed comparison that extends through multiple lines. C) Creates word pictures through the senses. D) A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonhuman subject given human characteristics. 4. A Japanese poem written in three lines, usually about nature is called a: A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Haithere. D) Cinquain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. 5. The place where a line ends A) Period. B) Sentence. C) Stanza. D) Line break. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line break. 6. A Simple Love Poem Your gran'ma, in her youth, was quiteAs blithe a little maid as you.And, though her hair is snowy white, Her eyes still have their maiden blue, And on her checks, as fair as thine, Methinks a girlish blush would glowIf she recalled the valentineShe got, ah! many years ago. A valorous youth loved gran'ma then, And wooed her in that auld lang syne;And first he told his secret whenHe sent the maid that valentine, No perfumed page nor sheet of goldWas that first hint of love he sent, But with the secret gran'pa told ..... "I love you" ..... gran'ma was content. Go, ask your gran'ma if you will, If ..... though her head be bowed and gray ..... If ..... though her feeble pulse be chill ..... True love abideth not for aye;By that quaint portrait on the wall, That smiles upon her from above, Methinks your gran'ma can recallThe sweet divinity of love. Dear Elsie, here 's no page of gold ..... No sheet embossed with cunning art ..... But here 's a solemn pledge of old:"I love you, love, with all my heart."And if in what I send you hereYou read not all of love expressed, Go ..... go to gran'ma, Elsie dear, And she will tell you all the rest! Which line in the poem shows evidence to Part A? A) And, though her hair is snowy white, /Her eyes still have their maiden blue,. B) No perfumed page nor sheet of gold/Was that first hint of love he sent,. C) But with the secret gran'pa told /"I love you" gran'ma was content. D) If though her head be bowed and gray /If though her feeble pulse be chill . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) But with the secret gran'pa told /"I love you" gran'ma was content. 7. Japanese verse in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often depicting a delicate image. A) Cinquain. B) Limerick. C) Sonnet. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haiku. 8. Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Assonance. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assonance. 9. When two words have similar, but not the same, middle and end sounds. A) Rhyme. B) Homophone. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 10. Figurative language A) Feeling reader gets from work. B) Atmosphere or tone of a work. C) Visually descriptive language. D) Language used to create special effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Language used to create special effect. 11. A comparison between two things without using connecting words such as "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 12. Direct comparisson saying one thing is another; symbolic. Does not use "like" or "as" A) Idiom. B) Imagery. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 13. The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. A) Idiom. B) Diction. C) Nuance. D) Connotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 14. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word like or as. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 15. Using the words "like" or "as" to compare one thing to another is called a: A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 16. "The house was an island, cut off from the rest of the community." A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Imagery. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 17. Sylvia Plath uses this type of poetry for the majority of her work. A) Lyrical. B) Ballad. C) Concrete. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free verse. 18. Simile or Metaphor?The assignment was a breeze. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. Sound devices A) A group of lines in a poem. B) How the reader feels about the text while reading. C) Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elements such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and onomatopoeia-gives poetry a musical quality. 20. Giving an object human-like qualities A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Anthropomorphization. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. ← 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