This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 87 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 87 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The following are types of figurative language A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 2. Shorter poem that describes a single event and may be set to music A) Epic poem. B) Ballad poem. C) Narrative poem. D) Dramatic poetry. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad poem. 3. Giving human qualities or actions to something that is not human. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Figurative Language. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 4. The fog was a ghost A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 5. A sentence or sentence fragment in a poem A) Couplet. B) Form. C) Stanza. D) Line. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Line. 6. Which of the following terms is used to measure a poem's rhythm? A) Meter. B) Miles. C) Yards. D) Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 7. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates the rhythm of lines of poetry. A) Meter. B) Repetition. C) Slant rhyme. D) Figurative language. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 8. Lightning danced across the sky. A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 9. Boom! Bam! Pop! Buzz! A) Imagery. B) Approximate Rhyme. C) Slant Rhyme. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 10. In poetry a paragraph is called a ..... A) Couplet. B) Stanza. C) Quatrain. D) A group of lines in a poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stanza. 11. Personification gives ..... A) Human qualities to nonhuman things. B) Animal qualities to humans. C) Animal qualities to things. D) Human qualities to humans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human qualities to nonhuman things. 12. Literature that ridicules human folly or vice in order to bring about some kind of reform A) Situational irony. B) Satire. C) Verbal irony. D) Dramatic irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Satire. 13. Grouped lines of poerty A) Stanzas. B) Lines. C) Couplets. D) End rhymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stanzas. 14. Rhyme pattern in a poem (marked with letters) A) Alliteration. B) Meter. C) Rhyme scheme. D) Extended metaphor. E) Assonance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rhyme scheme. 15. The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close togetherex.- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." A) Assonance. B) Alliteration. C) Consonance. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Form is ..... A) The arrangement of lines in a poem. B) A poet's attitude. C) The definition of a word. D) An extreme exaggeration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The arrangement of lines in a poem. 17. This is is a pleasing sounding caused by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases, or in poems. A) Consonance. B) Repetition. C) Parallelism. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consonance. 18. The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod. What two things are being compared in this this sentence? A) Friends to peas. B) Friends to pods. C) Peas to pods. D) Best to friends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friends to peas. 19. How the reader feels about a text A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Speaker. D) Emotional Appeal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 20. The repetition of identical or similar sounds in words. A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Scheme. D) Stanza. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. ← 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