This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 90 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 90 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The repetition of consonant sounds, most often at the beginnings of words and syllables A) Alliteration. B) Literal Language. C) Figurative Language. D) Imagery. E) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 2. When lines are organized in units of meaning; always separated by extra white space. A) Poetry. B) Rhyme Scheme. C) Rhythm. D) Stanzas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stanzas. 3. "In this game of life, your family is the court and your ball is your heart" A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Couplet. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 4. What is a Free Verse A) A poem with no pattern or rhyme scheme. B) A poem the is 17 syllables and about nature. C) Comparing something using like or as. D) A poem that is humorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poem with no pattern or rhyme scheme. 5. The sound and feel created by the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables A) Repetition. B) Verse. C) Rhyming Words. D) Rhythm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rhythm. 6. Quatrain A) A stanza in a poem that has exactly four lines. B) A single line of poetry. C) A pair of consecutive lines of poetry that create a complete thought or idea. D) A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A stanza in a poem that has exactly four lines. 7. Betty Botter bought some butter Which literary device is used here? A) Alliteration. B) Idiom. C) Metaphor. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 8. A semantic field is A) Repeated consonant sounds. B) A pattern of punctuation within a poem. C) A pattern of rhythm you can find in a poem. D) A group of words whose meanings are related, eg love, war. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A group of words whose meanings are related, eg love, war. 9. Giving an animal human-like qualities A) Anthropomorphism. B) Personification. C) Rhythm. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anthropomorphism. 10. An intentional exaggeration or overstatement A) Onomatopoeia. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 11. Writing that creates mental pictures through figurative language, descriptions, and sensory words A) Metaphor. B) Personification. C) Imagery. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Imagery. 12. The old woman I saw at the park looked one billion years old! This is an example of ..... A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 13. Repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words (lovely lonely lights) A) Meter. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Similes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 14. What is the definition of the term:Onomatopoeia? A) The repetition of final consonant sounds in stressed syllables with different vowel sounds (hat and sit). B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr). C) The repetition of initial consonant sounds. D) The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The use of words that imitate sounds (Whirr). 15. If a phrase, word, or sound are used more than once in a poem A) Consonance. B) Assonance. C) Rhyme. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetition. 16. The feeling a reader gets from a piece of literature A) Mood. B) Narrative. C) Ode. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 17. Poetry that does not have to follow a specific form or rhyme A) Free verse. B) Haiku. C) Narrative. D) Lyrical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free verse. 18. Identify the couplet:2 lines that have end rhyme! A) He was ready to faint. B) There was an old person. C) The boat was not afloat. D) Bam! Snap!. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The boat was not afloat. 19. The voice telling the poem A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Symbol. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 20. When the words at the ends of the lines rhyme. Also known as external rhyme A) Internal rhyme. B) End rhyme. C) Sonnet. D) Pentameter. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) End 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