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