This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Genres > Poetry > Poetry Terms – Quiz 92 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Poetry Terms Quiz 92 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When two or more words have the same ending sound, it is called A) Scheme. B) Rhyme. C) Alliteration. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rhyme. 2. A form of poetry where a single speaker expresses his/her thoughts or feelings. A) Lyric Poetry. B) Couplet. C) Internal Rhyme. D) Rhyme Scheme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lyric Poetry. 3. Define Assonance A) Giving an inanimate object lifelike qualities. B) A close repetition of vowel sounds. C) A line consisting of 11 syllables. D) Repeating lines in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A close repetition of vowel sounds. 4. "I must be cruel to be kind" is an example of ..... A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Paradox. D) Juxtaposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Paradox. 5. Exact time A) Two feet per line. B) A line of poetry that ends with a punctuation mark. C) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). D) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A full rime in which the sounds following the initial letters of the words are identical in sound (follow and hollow). 6. The repeating of sound, words, phrases or lines in a poem used to emphasize an idea or convey a certain feeling. A) Repetition. B) Assonance. C) Alliteration. D) Rhyme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repetition. 7. A 5 line humorous poem with rhyme scheme AABBA A) Limerick. B) Haiku. C) Ballad. D) Quatrain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Limerick. 8. Characters, settings, images, or other things that stand in for bigger ideas beyond their literal meaning. A) Diction. B) Symbol. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symbol. 9. An implied analogy or comparison which is carried through a stanza or entire poem A) Irony. B) Cutting. C) Elegy. D) Conceit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Conceit. 10. The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem. A) Speaker. B) Tone. C) Character. D) Theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speaker. 11. A figure of speech and form of irony in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyperbole. 12. Stanzaic A) Lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject. B) One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. C) The visible shape or configuration of something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more lines usually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and number of lines. 13. Which word below rhymes exactly with the word "harm" ? A) Swarm. B) Warm. C) Farm. D) Claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Farm. 14. Figurative language is best defined as ..... A) A poet's way to express his/her thoughts in a deeper, more effective manner through metaphors, similes, hyperbole, oxymoron, etc. B) A poet's way of reaching his/her audience through sound devices, etc. C) A poet's way of painting a picture in the reader's mind through rhythm and meter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A poet's way to express his/her thoughts in a deeper, more effective manner through metaphors, similes, hyperbole, oxymoron, etc. 15. Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words A) Consonance. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 16. Matching of the final vowel or consonant sounds in 2 or more words in a line of poetry A) Rhyme. B) Rhythm. C) Sound devices. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rhyme. 17. Repeating ideas to emphasize a point or make you focus on a main idea. An example: "I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know." from I'm nobody! Who are You?" by Emily Dickinson A) Meter. B) Repetition. C) Rhythm. D) Symbol. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Repetition. 18. Begins with several words with the same soundex) twisting trout twinkled in the twilight A) Alliteration. B) Allusion. C) Anaphora. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 19. "The people along the sand, All turn around and look one way. They turn their back on the band, They look at the sea all day" This is an example of A) End Rhyme. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) End Rhyme. 20. What is an onmatopoeia? A) Likeness of sounds in two or more words or phrases. B) The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. C) Use of words imitate sound (buzz). D) The repetition of vowel sounds in words (but no consonant repetition). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Use of words imitate sound (buzz). ← 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