Literary Terms Quiz

What is a stanza?

• A collection of metrical lines of poetry

• A set of verses arranged together

• A figure of speech established by usage

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

What is a verse?

• A collection of metrical lines of poetry

• A set of verses arranged together

• A figure of speech established by usage

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

What is a couplet?

• A collection of metrical lines of poetry

• A two lined stanza

• A figure of speech established by usage

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

What is internal rhyme?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• A set of verses arranged together

• A figure of speech established by usage

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

What is end rhyme?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• A figure of speech established by usage

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

What is sight or eye rhyme?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

• Repetition of consonant sounds

What is repetition?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• When words or phrases are repeated

• Repetition of consonant sounds

What is imagery?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• When words or phrases are repeated

• Visually descriptive or figurative language

What is analogy?

• Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry

• Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines

• A similarity between like features of two things

• Visually descriptive or figurative language

What is metaphor?

• Comparison of two objects/ideas without using 'like' or 'as'

• Comparison of two objects/ideas using 'like' or 'as'

• A similarity between like features of two things

• Visually descriptive or figurative language