Poetry Terms Quiz

What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds called?

• Assonance

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Hyperbole

Which term refers to a reference to another work of literature, person, or event?

• Elegy

• Ballad

• Allusion

• Metaphor

What is the repetition of vowel sounds known as?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Paradox

What is a poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas called?

• Elegy

• Ballad

• Lyric Poetry

• Free Verse

What is unrhymed iambic pentameter known as?

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

• Couplet

• Narrative Poetry

What is the repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity called?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

What are two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme called?

• Couplet

• Stanza

• Verse

• Quatrain

What is a sad or mournful poem called?

• Elegy

• Ballad

• Lyric Poetry

• Narrative Poetry

What is poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme called?

• Free Verse

• Blank Verse

• Lyric Poetry

• Narrative Poetry

What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally called?

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Paradox

• Personification