Poetry Terms Quiz

What is an elegy?

• A humorous poem

• A formal lyric poem about death

• A poem with a happy ending

• A short story

What is a simile?

• A comparison using 'like' or 'as'

• A type of rhyme

• A form of alliteration

• A narrative poem

What is a couplet?

• Two lines of verse with rhyming end lines

• A four-line stanza

• A type of metaphor

• A narrative poem

What is a sonnet?

• A fourteen-line lyric poem with a single theme

• A three-line poem

• A poem with no rhyme scheme

• A type of prose

What is consonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds

• Repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of words

• A type of rhyme

• A form of metaphor

What is alliteration?

• Repetition of the beginning or consonant sounds

• A type of rhyme

• A form of metaphor

• A narrative poem

What is rhythm in poetry?

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

• A type of rhyme

• A form of metaphor

• A narrative poem

What is rhyme?

• Occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words

• A type of metaphor

• A narrative poem

• A form of prose

What is assonance?

• Repetition of the vowel sound

• Repetition of consonant sounds

• A type of rhyme

• A narrative poem

What is onomatopoeia?

• Use of words whose sounds echo their meanings

• A type of rhyme

• A form of metaphor

• A narrative poem