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