Understanding Literature

A literary piece which is written in the pattern of ordinary spoken language and within the common flow of conversation.

• prose

• poetry

• novel

• thesis

These are literary works that are based mainly on facts rather than on the imagination.

• anime

• fiction

• nonfiction

• spongebob squarepants

A form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of language, such as phonesthetics, sound symbolism, and meter, to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

• prose

• poetry

• literature

• Facebook post

Poetry is a transfiguration of _______; in other words, an imaginative native representation in verse or rhythm, of whatever men perceive, feel, think, or do.

• soul

• life

• body

• mind

The English poet who invented a lot of English words.

• William Shakespeare

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• Edith Hamilton

• Angelo Dizon

Poetry was written in a _______ language, sometimes creative and rhythmical.

• literal

• mysterious

• direct

• figurative

The easiest way to paint words is to use what?

• double meaning words

• Figure of speech

• imagery

• paintbrush

A rhythm that continuously repeats a single basic pattern.

• rhyme

• meter

• stanza

• beat

A long narrative poem in elevated style recounting the deeds of a legendary or historical hero.

• epic

• ballad

• sonnet

• cartoons

It is consisting of 14 lines each line has 10 syllables. It has a specific rhyme scheme in English which is usually abab–cdcd–efef–gg

• elegy

• ode

• sonnet

• Valentines letter