This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 52 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 52 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following are examples of what? Student teacher, jumbo shrimp, larger half, seriously funny A) Oxymoron. B) Paradox. C) Enjambment. D) Imagery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxymoron. 2. An object which carries more meaning than simply the dictionary definition. A) Symbol. B) Theme. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbol. 3. What is the correct term for the following definition? The use of words that imitate sounds:buzz, screech, hiss, bang, pow, boom, etc. A) Assonance. B) Metaphor. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 4. Has little or no pre-established form or guidelines: A) Fixed form. B) Free verse. C) Elegy. D) Ode. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Free verse. 5. All night long with rush and lull/ The rain keep drumming on the roof A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. When something represents a bigger idea A) Symbolism. B) Theme. C) Tone. D) Mood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Symbolism. 7. Which is an example of onomatopoeia? A) The rain spit down quickly. B) The rain made my suit slick, squeaky, and sweaty. C) The rain swooshed through the city. D) It rained like cats and dogs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rain swooshed through the city. 8. Her eyes dance in the moonlight, is an example of: A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 9. The number of beats/syllables in a line of poetry A) End Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Rhyme. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhythm. 10. How many lines does a limerick have? A) 3. B) 5. C) 7. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 11. What's the rhyme scheme?You just want attention, you don't want my heartMaybe you just hate the thought of me with someone newYeah, you just want attention, I knew from the startYou're just making sure I'm never gettin' over you A) AAAA. B) AABB. C) Father. D) ABCB. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Father. 12. Written with "he or she or they" as the subject; The narrator and reader are outside the story. Pronouns:he, she, it, they, them, him, her, his, hers, its A) 1st person. B) 2nd person. C) 3rd person. D) Acrostic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3rd person. 13. A nonhuman subject is given human characteristics A) Figurative language. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Prose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 14. Repetition of the same sounds in a line A) Allusion. B) Assonance. C) Consonance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 15. Repetition of consonant sounds in a given group of words close together. (Initial/beginning sounds). A) Alliteration. B) Rhyme scheme. C) Euphony. D) Anaphora. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 16. Comparison between 2 unlike things using like or as A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 17. ..... is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. A) Fiction. B) Nonfiction. C) Poetry. D) Newspaper article. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poetry. 18. A comparison between two things WITHOUT the words "like" or "as" . A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Synecdoche. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 19. The lesson you learn from a piece of writing is called the ..... A) Big picture. B) Moral. C) Primary theme. D) Idea time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Primary theme. 20. Which of the following pairs of words rhyme? A) Banana and Apple. B) Cry and Pie. C) Baby and Lady. D) Fast and Furious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cry and Pie. ← 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