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