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