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