Literary Terms Quiz

What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in consecutive or neighboring words called?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

Which term describes the repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words?

• Rhyme

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

What is a haiku?

• A fourteen-line poem with a distinctive rhyme scheme

• A short poem with a rigid formal structure of seventeen syllables

• A poem that recounts a story

• A poem that communicates a speaker’s mood

Which term refers to a comparison between two unlike items that uses 'like' or 'as'?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is the term for the regular recurrence of sounds in a poem?

• Meter

• Rhythm

• Stanza

• Tone

What is onomatopoeia?

• The use of words that describe the senses

• A comparison between two unlike items

• When the sound of a word echoes its meaning

• An intentional exaggeration

What is a sonnet?

• A poem that recounts a story

• A fourteen-line poem with a distinctive rhyme scheme

• A short poem with seventeen syllables

• A poem that uses onomatopoeia