Name: _________________________________
Poetry Terms: Language and Logic #1
Place the letter of the BEST answer in the space provided.
_____ 1. “A thousand sails glided into the port,
and the invasion began.”
A. apostrophe
B. allusion
C. synecdoche
D. anaphora
_____ 2. “Remember the Lusitanian!”
A. connotation
B. allusion
C. paradox
D. epithet
_____ 3. “Yeah, he’s just another Milli Vanilli.”
A. allusion
B. paradox
C. irony
D. diction
_____ 11. “I got digits last night.”
A. consonance
C. contraction
B. colloquialism
D. connotation
_____ 12. “Trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents.”
A. metaphor
B. allusion
C. paradox
D. assonance
_____ 13. “1963…she held me through the night when we
heard of what had happened in that brutal Dallas light.”
A. colloquialism
B. allusion
C. paradox
D. juxtaposition
_____ 4. “Later my eyes saw her,
crying and picking flowers.”
A. paradox
B. synecdoche
C. irony
D. oxymoron
_____ 14. Instead of telling my Great Aunt Mildred that I
had to piss like a racehorse, I politely asked her where
the restroom was.
A. invective
B. chiasmus
C. euphemism
D. irony
_____ 5. “Even though the house is quiet and shut
even though I am not in it, I am in it.”
A. syllogism
B. denotation
C. paradox
D. paronomasia
_____ 15. “A man entered 10 puns in a joke contest, in the
hopes that one of them would win. Unfortunately, no
pun in ten did.”
A. pun
B. Mac and Cheese
C. cheesy
D. Parcheesi
_____ 6. An invisible man went to see the doctor.
The doctor said, “I’m sorry, I can’t see you.”
A. pun
B. allusion
C. anaphora
D. euphemism
_____ 16. Despite the way it is often used, the word impact
actually refers to a collision, such as a car accident or
meteorite hitting the moon.
A. euphemism
B. paradox
C. denotation
D. paronomasia
_____ 7. “1961, when we went to Washington, she put her
arms around me and said, ‘Camelot’s begun.’”
A. metaphor
B. allusion
C. paradox
D. Arthurian
_____ 8. “The light is buried by chains and noises.”
A. allusion
B. paradox
C. apostrophe
D. hyperbole
_____ 9. “He pulled a Keyzer Söze and poof, he was gone.”
A. metaphor
B. allusion
C. paronomasia
D. paradox
_____ 10. Joe needed an Icy-Hot patch for his back.
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. allusion
D. oxymoron
_____ 17. My mother was offended when
the clerk called her “Miss.”
A. anaphora
B. allusion
C. denotation
D. connotation
_____ 18. “O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity.”
A. metonymy
B. internal rhyme
C. parallelism
D. oxymoron
_____ 19. “beneath the unknown bones
beneath the cobblestones
beneath the traffic of friendships and street deals
beneath the screeching of kamikaze cab wheels”
A. connotation
B. irony
C. anaphora
D. personification
_____ 20. Gandalf the Grey
A. metaphor
C. kenning
B. epithet
D. allusion