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A line of poetry is measured by the
- A. number of words
- B. number of feet it contains
- C. images
- D. rhythm
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”But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near” illustrates
- A. metaphor
- B. apostrophe
- C. oxymoron
- D. metonymy
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The elegy
- A. conforms to a fixed pattern of lines
- B. is set in the countryside
- C. has a mournful tone
- D. celebrates heroic deeds
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The limerick
- A. is written to be sung
- B. has a serious subject matter
- C. is always light and humorous
- D. uses lofty language
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Unrhymed iambic pentametre lines illustrate a
- A. rhyme scheme
- B. heroic couplet
- C. blank verse
- D. free verse
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A pause within a line of a poem is a
- A. zeugma
- B. foot
- C. caesura
- D. stress
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”….the dragon-fly
hangs like a blue thread
losened from the sky…” illustrates
- A. simile
- B. litotes
- C. contrast
- D. metaphor