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Figurative Language & Poetry
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"If I don't catch that bus, I'm gonna die!" is an example of:
hyperbole
irony
imagery
alliteration
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"By losing the no-confidence vote, the Prime Minister met his Waterloo," is an example of:
personification
a simile
an allusion
assonance
15
The poet best known for a 14-line poem concluding in rhyming couplets is:
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare
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The Odyssey is an example of which of the following:
a lyric poem
an epic poem
a sonnet
a haiku
15
The Iliad and the Odyssey were "written" by this blind poet:
Hopkins
Yeats
Milton
Homer
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Poems that were traditionally sung with a lyre, to express emotion and imagery are called:
narrative
lyric
free verse
epic
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Haiku poetry comes from which of these cultures?
Greece
Japan
England
Persia
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In addition to the English, or Shakespearean sonnet, there is another form of sonnet callled:
Greek
Italian or Petrarchan
lyric
epic
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Assonance is a repetition of:
sounds within words and syllables
nonsense words
important lines and stanzas
sounds at the beginning of words
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Addressing something or someone who isn't there is called:
personfication
dialogue
irony
apostrophe
15
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" is an example of:
alliteration
simile
personification & anthropomorphism
oxymoron
15
A stanza with four lines is called a:
quatrain
haiku
trochee
lyric
15
"Half a league, half a league, half a league onward," is an example of:
pentameter
onomatopoeia
imagery
repetition
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"It's been a hard days night, and I've been working like a dog," is an example of a:
hyperbole
metaphor
imagery
simile
15
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players," is a:
simile
hyperbole
metaphor
irony
15
Who wrote "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass?"
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Edgar Allen Poe
Robert Frost
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