English 9 Module 6

In Spanish, "El Dorado" means _________.

"the golden one"

"One Wants a Teller in a Time Like This" switches from the perspective of the young person to the perspective of the "teller." This means the poem has two ____________.

points of view

Which of the following lines from "Song of the Chattahoochee" is an example of internal rhyme?

"And the lordly main from beyond the plain"

Which of the following lines is an example of internal rhyme?

"And the lordly main from beyond the plain"

Which of the following lines is an example of consonance?

"High o'er the hills of Habersham"

Which of the following is NOT one of the analogies in the poem?

A dream deferred is like a dam about to burst

_________: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Alliteration

____________: A reference to something the poet is sure the audience will know

Allusion

__________: An address to a thing or person

Apostrophe

_________: Two or more words in the same line or sentence that have the same or similar vowel sounds ("I tried to light the fire")

Assonance

"One Wants a Teller in a Time Like This"

Gwendolyn Brooks

Langston Hughes is a key figure in the _________ Renaissance.

Harlem

___________: A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

Quatrain

The historical context of "Song of the Chattahoochee" is _______________.

Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War

The poem repeats the phrases "the hills of Habersham" and "the valleys of Hall" at the beginning and end of each stanza. This type of repetition is called a _________.

Refrain

In poetry, a paradox is something that seems self-contradictory. Which of the following is a paradox in "I heard a Fly buzz?"

The poem finally ends with a complete rhyme, but then throws in a note of uncertainty with that dash (-) after the last word

Which line from the poem tells us that the "one" written about is a young person?

"One's not a man, one's not a woman grown"

The meaning of "Success is counted sweetest" matches best with which common saying?

"The grass is always greener on the other side"

Which of the following lines stands alone in the poem?

"What happens to a dream deferred?"

How many points of view are featured in this poem?

2

__________: Two or more words in the same line or sentence that start with the same consonant sound (for example, "Slithery snakes steal sleep from students")

Consonance

__________: Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that go together

Couplet

"Do not go gentle"

Dylan Thomas

"Eldorado"

Edgar Allan Poe

"The Cry of the Children"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers"

Emily Dickinson

"I heard a Fly Buzz"

Emily Dickinson

Which of the poets we have discussed in this module openly admired Elizabeth Barrett Browning?

Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe

Percy Bysshe Shelley is a key figure in _____________.

English Romanticism

"One Wants a Teller in a Time Like This" maintains a consistent rhythm throughout.

False

Dickinson's work was well-known and well-loved during her lifetime.

False

The Chattahoochee River, Hall County, and Habersham County are all places in Tennessee.

False

_________: The words the poet uses to create pictures in the reader's mind

Imagery

___________: Words that rhyme in the same line ("I found the ground at last") or in the middle of lines ("The tree that held me / So free and high")

Internal rhyme

In "Ozymandias," the statue declares the greatness of the "King of Kings" and his empire, but the statue now lies in ruins surrounded by nothing but sand. What literary device is at play here?

Irony

"Dream Deferred"

Langston Hughes

"Transfiguration"

Louisa May Alcott

What advice does the teller give the young person at the end of the poem?

Love's true Love triumphs God's actual All of these

____________: A comparison between two objects without using the words "like" or "as" (for example, "The defensive line was a brick wall")

Metaphor

__________: The rhythmic pattern in a poem, like iambic pentameter

Meter

____________: The sound of the word imitates or resembles the meaning of the word; for example, "hiss," "moo," "plop"

Onomatopoeia

________: A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (for example, "deafening silence")

Oxymoron

____________: Something that seems self-contradictory

Paradox

____________: Parts of a line have a grammatically similar structure, often repeating a specific word, phrase, or idea (for example, "I love you and you love me")

Parallelism

"The rushes cried 'Abide, abide,'The willful waterweeds held me thrall,The laving laurel turned my tide,The ferns and the fondling grass said 'Stay,'The dewberry dipped for to work delay,And the little reeds sighed 'Abide, abide,Here in the hills of Habersham,Here in the valleys of Hall.'" In this stanza of "Song of the Chattahoochee," all the elements of nature speak and act like humans. This is a literary device called __________.

Personification

___________: Giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals (for example, "The tree lifted its leafy arms to the sky")

Personification

__________: Repeating a word or phrase

Repetition

____________: The pattern in which words in a poem rhyme, like ABAB, AABB, or AAAC

Rhyme scheme

Which word is repeated in the middle of each stanza?

Shadow

Why did Elizabeth Barrett Browning write "The Cry of the Children?"

She read a parliamentary report

"Song of the Chattahoochee"

Sidney Lanier

________: A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as" (for example, "her love is like a flower")

Simile

___________: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities

Symbolism

Personification is a literary device in which an inanimate thing is given human attributes. In this poem, what natural element is personified?

The Chattahoochee River All of these The "rushes" (line 13) The "little reeds" (line 18)

What biblical allusion does Poe include in "Eldorado"?

The Valley of the Shadow of Death

What is the heavy implication of the poem's ending?

The search for "Eldorado" will end in death

"Dream Deferred" is essentially a series of analogies.

True

A common subject in Emily Dickinson's poetry is death and mortality.

True

The statue's inscription in the poem is based on the inscription on the real Ozymandias statue.

True

The structure of a poem can add a lot of meaning to the poem.

True

"Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore-And then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over-like a syrupy sweet?" These lines from "Dream Deferred" include 4 ________, or comparisons.

analogies

"I heard a Fly buzz when I died" ___________.

contradicts the popular "sentimental death scene" of the day

The final line in the poem, "Or does it explode?", is ___________.

imagery

The __________ and ___________ in "Eldorado" are reminiscent of nursery rhymes like "Jack and Jill" (select the two that apply).

meter rhyme scheme

The meter and rhyme scheme of "Eldorado" is reminiscent of a __________.

nursery rhyme

"Eldorado" was written during the time of _____________.

the California Gold Rush

The poem is written from the point of view (perspective) of __________.

the river