This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 489 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 489 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn" This line is an example of ..... A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Idiom. D) Analogy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 2. Unit of language into which a poem or play is divided. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 3. When a poet repeats lines but changes one or more words with each repetition. A) Refrain. B) Repetition. C) Variation. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Variation. 4. I will love you for a thousand years. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 5. What is a ballad poem? A) A poem that tells a story. B) A poem that does not have any set rules. C) A poem that tells a story and is similar to a folk tale or legend. D) A poem that expresses thoughts and feelings and is musical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A poem that tells a story and is similar to a folk tale or legend. 6. Poets group lines into stanzas to create an effect or express an idea A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables A) Poetry. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhythm. 8. (literary) brief but purposeful references, within a literary text, to a person, place, event, or to another work of literature A) Unscathed. B) Parallel. C) Pelt. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 9. The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what? A) Author. B) Speaker. C) Poet. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speaker. 10. What is the correct term for the following definition? A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance A) Allusion. B) Diction. C) Form. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 11. These compare two things that are alike in some way using the words "like" or "as." For example: "The moon was as bright as a white balloon." A) Metaphors. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 12. What is a contradiction A) Opposite ideas/words. B) Agreeing ideas/words. C) Word choice. D) Sentence structure/syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opposite ideas/words. 13. Repetition of internal consonant sounds A) Alliteration. B) Consonance. C) Assonance. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Consonance. 14. The use of a part of something to represent a whole idea A) Synecdoche. B) Oxymoron. C) Symbol. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 15. These are rhyming words placed within a line of poetry A) Internal rhyme. B) Exact rhyme. C) End rhyme. D) Slant rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal rhyme. 16. Compares two apparently unlike things using the word like or as A) Simile. B) Analogy. C) Figurative language. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 17. Assonance, consonance, and alliteration are basically the same thing. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. Using "like" or "as" to compare unlike things. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 19. "Juliet is the sun!" is an example of A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Diction. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 20. Her love is a rose to my heart. Metaphor? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. ← 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