This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 78 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 78 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Poetry A) A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. B) The flow or beat in a poem. C) When words end in the same sound. D) When words, phrases, or lines, repeat in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. 2. The use of the same words or phrases over and over A) Speaker. B) Line. C) Repetition. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repetition. 3. What is the repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text? A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 4. What is a Cinquain? A) Comparison between two unlike things without using connective words. B) A classic form of poetry that has 5 lines. C) A song or song-like poem that tells a story. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A classic form of poetry that has 5 lines. 5. An emotion or something inhuman, such as a mountain or love or a tree, is given human qualities. A) Oxymoron. B) Synecdoche. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Personification. 6. I ate so much that I think I'm going to explode! This sentence is a clear example of A) Allusion. B) Idiom. C) Hyperbole. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 7. Identify the simile A) I like apples. B) Apples taste sweet. C) You're the apple of my eye. D) This apple is as sweet as candy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) This apple is as sweet as candy. 8. Also known as a "play on words" involving words with similar sounds but different meanings A) Similarly. B) Imagery. C) Pun. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pun. 9. Seven snakes slithered silently A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Rhyme. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 10. Lines are arranged in groups called ..... A) Simile. B) Sound. C) Stanza. D) Lines. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. 11. Highly musical verse A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Lyric poem. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lyric poem. 12. A sound device in which a word makes the sound is called ..... A) Metaphor. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Simile. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 13. Which of the following is NOT an example of onomatopoeia? A) Snap. B) Tick-tock. C) Sleep. D) Bonk. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleep. 14. An obvious and intentional exaggeration A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as "like" or "as." A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Rhythm. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 16. A collection of words written to inspire ideas, imagination, or emotion A) Meter. B) Poem. C) Stanza. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 17. What word is defined as "a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally" ? A) Idiom. B) Connotation. C) Denotation. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 18. The people along the sand All turn and look one way. They turn their back on the land. They look at the sea all day. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ..... A) Father. B) AABB. C) ABCD. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Father. 19. A line of verse where a logical or rhetorical pause occurs at end of line, usually marked with period, comma, or other punctuation A) Diction. B) End-Stopped. C) Epiphany. D) Figurative Language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End-Stopped. 20. In poetry, what do we call a group of lines? A) Couplet. B) Paragraph. C) Stanza. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stanza. ← 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