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