"If I don't catch that bus, I'm gonna die!" is an example of:
hyperbole
imagery
alliteration
irony
"By losing the no-confidence vote, the Prime Minister met his Waterloo," is an example of:
an allusion
a simile
assonance
personification
The poet best known for a 14-line poem concluding in rhyming couplets is:
Emily Dickinson
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
William Shakespeare
The Odyssey is an example of which of the following:
a sonnet
a haiku
an epic poem
a lyric poem
The Iliad and the Odyssey were "written" by this blind poet:
Hopkins
Yeats
Milton
Homer
Poems that were traditionally sung with a lyre, to express emotion and imagery are called:
epic
lyric
narrative
free verse
Haiku poetry comes from which of these cultures?
England
Greece
Japan
Persia
In addition to the English, or Shakespearean sonnet, there is another form of sonnet callled:
epic
lyric
Italian or Petrarchan
Greek
Assonance is a repetition of:
sounds within words and syllables
nonsense words
important lines and stanzas
sounds at the beginning of words
Addressing something or someone who isn't there is called:
personfication
dialogue
irony
apostrophe
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" is an example of:
personification & anthropomorphism
oxymoron
alliteration
simile
A stanza with four lines is called a:
lyric
trochee
quatrain
haiku
"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward," is an example of:
imagery
onomatopoeia
repetition
pentameter
"It's been a hard days night, and I've been working like a dog," is an example of a:
hyperbole
imagery
metaphor
simile
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players," is a:
irony
metaphor
simile
hyperbole
Who wrote "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass?"
Walt Whitman
Robert Frost
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
