Quiz  /  Literary Terms: A Pop Quiz

  • 1. 
    What is the term for the comic light verse quatrain having lines of varying length rhyming aabb and usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme?

  • limerick
  • mock epic
  • clerihew
  • doggerel

  • 2. 
    Which of the following is not an element of virtually all Old English poetry?

  • use of the kenning
  • iambic pentameter
  • a single metre, in four-stress lines
  • alliteration

  • 3. 
    What figure of speech, common in love poetry, is an intentional exaggeration for emphasis or comic effect?

  • spondee
  • cadence
  • trope
  • hyperbole

  • 4. 
    What term refers to specialized types of language cultivated and maintained by certain professions?

  • slang
  • jargon
  • metonymy
  • cant
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