This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 81 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 81 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Things are compared by stating that one thing is another. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 2. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Repetition. D) Sound device. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assonance. 3. Eagles=United Statesdove=peacered roses=lovelions=power and strengthThese are all examples of: A) Allusions. B) Figurative language. C) Symbolism. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Symbolism. 4. Repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad. A) Prose. B) Pun. C) Quatrain. D) Refrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Refrain. 5. Figurative A) The order in which certain words rhyme at the end of a line of poetry. B) Having a meaning that is different from the dictionary definition. C) The feeling that a poem gives to a reader through words, phrases and images. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Having a meaning that is different from the dictionary definition. 6. What figurative language device is usedin this sentence? Be ready when opportunity comes knocking at your door. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. A figure of speech that offers and exaggerated or extravagant statement (that is not meant to be taken literally) in order to highlight a point is called ..... A) Metaphore. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 8. The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem is ..... A) Rhythm. B) Rhyme. C) Imagery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhythm. 9. The use of a word or a phrase that actually imitates the sound it describes A) Onomatopoeia. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 10. "I think a storm is coming"is an example of ..... A) Idiom. B) Foreshadowing. C) Imagery. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foreshadowing. 11. "CRASH!" is an example of ..... A) Onomatopoeia. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Onomatopoeia. 12. Which type of poetry avoids the use of regular rhyme, rhythm, meter, or division into stanzas A) Free Verse. B) Blank Verse. C) Ballad. D) Elegy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free Verse. 13. The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in stressed syllables (blade, maze, take) A) Onomatopoeia. B) Meter. C) Rhyme. D) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assonance. 14. Physical structure of the poem; length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition A) Line. B) Stanza. C) Juxtaposition. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Form. 15. What is the definition of imagery in poetry? A) Rhythmical patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. B) Descriptive words that help the reader picture what is happening. C) Repeating the same words or phrases. D) The feeling words give you. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Descriptive words that help the reader picture what is happening. 16. A ..... is "a word that has the same sound but a different meaning as another word" . A) Homophone. B) Homograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homophone. 17. Fairly self-explanatory-it's the process of repeating certain words or phrases. A) Rhetorical Question. B) Sonnet. C) Ode. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 18. The repetition of vowels sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables. A) Idiom. B) Assonance. C) Simile. D) Haiku. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Assonance. 19. What is an idiom? A) What'd you call me?. B) A common expression that makes no sense unless you know its figurative meaning. C) When something concrete represents something abstract. D) Giving human qualities or traits to things that aren't human. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A common expression that makes no sense unless you know its figurative meaning. 20. The repetition of consonant sounds within words A) End rhyme. B) Imagery. C) Stanza. D) Consonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Consonance. ← 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