This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 70 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 70 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the feeling an author creates for the reader while reading? A) Theme. B) Plot. C) Mood. D) Thoughts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mood. 2. A word with the opposite meaning of another word A) Imagery. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhythm. D) Antonym. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antonym. 3. A simple poem written about a person A) Cinquain. B) Diamante. C) Bio-poem. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bio-poem. 4. A five-line stanza A) Cinquain. B) Couplet. C) Tercet. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinquain. 5. The repetition of VOWEL sound. A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Hyperbole. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 6. ..... is a figure of speech that directly compares one thing to another for rhetorical effect. X is Y. A) Personification. B) Imagery. C) Tone. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 7. A phrase or expression where the actual meaning is very different from the literal meaning. A) Idiom. B) Metaphor. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 8. Is a comparison of two things using the words like or as. A) Simile. B) Contrast. C) Similarity. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 9. Which term describes text that gives human characteristics to non-human items and animals? A) Metaphor. B) Sensory Language. C) Personification. D) Personality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 10. What device is used here: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary ..... " A) Refrain. B) Rhyme. C) Meter. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 11. Passing reference to another work A) Denotation. B) Allusion. C) Figurative Language. D) Reference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allusion. 12. This figure of speech is used when a part or pieces represent a whole. A) Synecdoche. B) Paradox. C) Connotation. D) Motif. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synecdoche. 13. The repetition of the initial consonant sounds A) Onomatopoeia. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 14. A 14 line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter A) Free verse. B) White verses. C) Couplet. D) Sonnet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sonnet. 15. Songlike poems that tell stories of adventure and romance A) Ballad. B) Concrete poem. C) Limerick. D) Free verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ballad. 16. This is when a sound is repeated over and over again. Example:Sally Sold Seashells by the Seashore. A) Idiom. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alliteration. 17. What term is defined as a comparison that says one thing is another? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 18. Carrying a sentence or a phrase over the end of a line (in poetry) A) Cutting. B) Apostrophe. C) Symbol. D) Enjambment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enjambment. 19. What is the name of a personwho writes poetry? A) Author. B) Singer. C) Poet. D) Narrator. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poet. 20. Define slant rhyme. A) Words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. B) A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next. C) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsa close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Words with similar but not identical sounds. In most instances, either the vowel segments are different while the consonants are identical, or vice versa. ← 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