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