This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 80 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 80 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following literary tools is a comparison that uses "like" or "as" ? A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 2. Using the same sound or letter at the beginning of words or lines A) Imagery. B) Rhythm. C) Alliteration. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 3. Specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a wooshing or hissing sound in the writing A) Sibilance. B) Ellipses. C) Refrain. D) Euphemism. E) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sibilance. 4. The house was a wreck. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 5. A five line humorous poem A) Limerick. B) Simile. C) Stanza. D) Free Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 6. Words with the same ending sound that appear at the end of a line in poetry A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhyme. 7. The repetition of the sound of a vowel A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Speaker. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 8. Rhetorical device in which words initially presented are restated in reverse order. A) Chiasmus. B) Repetition. C) Anaphora. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chiasmus. 9. Words that appeal to the five senses A) Symbolism. B) Imagery. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 10. Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses (sight, sound, touch, smell, taste) A) Figurative Language. B) Imagery. C) Sensory Language. D) Poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sensory Language. 11. A couplet is 2 lines A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the ends of lines of poetry A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Rhyme Scheme. D) Speaker. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 13. A big idea addressed throughout a work, usually expressed as an abstract noun, like "love" A) Theme. B) Hyperbole. C) Topic. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Topic. 14. "The flowers waltzed in the gentle summer breeze." is an example of A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 15. Using language that creates mental images in order to describe something; includes details that appeal to one or more of the five senses. A) Ballad. B) Imagery. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Imagery. 16. To have put off until a future time. A) Delayed. B) Stopped. C) Denotation. D) Deferred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deferred. 17. Most basic unit of poetry; similar to a sentence in prose A) Stanza. B) Structure. C) Form. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 18. Meter is best defined as..... A) Two rhyming lines. B) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. C) A line or set of lines that is repeated in a poem. D) A word that mimics a sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. 19. Which term is this the definition for:Recurring identical or similar final word sounds within or at the ends of lines. A) Repetition. B) Mood. C) Rhyme. D) Symbols. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme. 20. Which type of poem is three lines split into syllables of 5, 7, 5? A) Sonnet. B) Haiku. C) Free Verse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haiku. ← 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