English 102 Exam 2 - Poetry
Which of the following passages includes the best example of parallelism?
Should you ask where Nawadaha Found these songs so wild and wayward Found these legends and traditions I should answer, I should tell you
Who wrote "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
T.S. Eliot
Which of the following schools of poets placed new emphasis on visual images in the early twentieth century?
The Imagists
Which of the following passages is written in blank verse?
The faith that life one earth is being shaped To glorious ends, that order, justice, love Mean man's completeness, mean effect as sure As roundness in the dew-drop - that great faith Is but rushing and expanding stream Of thought, of feeling fed by all the past
Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
The sunlight is shards of glass
True or False: Imagery can communicate in ways that direct statement cannot.
True
True or False: Poetry generally uses more metaphors than prose.
True
Which syllables are stressed in the following line? Winter's cold or summer's heat
WINter's COLD or SUMmer's HEAT
Which of the following lines is not written in iambic pentameter?
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain
Which verse is free verse?
What thoughts i have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for i Walked down the sidestreets under the trees with headache Self-conscious looking at the full moon
Choose the lines that contain the most obvious instances of consonance
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping A crater I may contemplate
Which of the following pairs of lines contains the best example of internal rhyme?
While I nodded, nearly nappy, suddenly there came a tapping, as if someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door
Which of the following line sis in iambic tetrameter?
Why hast thou nothing in thy face?
Who wrote "The Sick Rose"?
William Blake
Who wrote "The Red Wheelbarrow"?
William Carlos Williams
A simile is
a comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
a comparison in which the writer says one thing is another thing
What is a simile?
a comparison of two things that are considered to be completely unlike each other
Onomatopoeia may be defined as
a poetic effect in which the sounds of the words mimic the sounds of the thing or process they describe
Parallelism may be defined as
a poetic repetition of sentence structure or work order to achieve a sense of rhythm or reputation within the poem
Allusion may be defined as
a reference to a person, place or thing, real or fiction, outside the text
Which of the following is the best definition of consonance?
a repetition of consonant sounds both at the beginning and within the words
Which of the following is the best definition of assonance?
a sound effect that occurs when a vowel sound is repeated
Alliteration is
a sound effect that occurs when the first consonants of two or more words are the same
What is an iambic foot?
a weakly stressed syllable followed by a strongly stressed syllable
Irony may be defined as
an effect that occurs when a statement has two levels of meaning and there is a gap or contradiction between them
What is a figure of speech?
an instance of nonliteral language
Free verse describes
any poem that is broken into lines but is not governed by regular meter or rhyme scheme
Similes and metaphors
are both comparisons, but a metaphor does not use "like" or "as"
Which of the following reading strategies works best?
examine both specific examples of imagery and larger patterns
In the following line from Ruth Pitter's "The Estuary", which pair of words represents an example of assonance? Light, stillness and peace lie on the broad sands
light and lie
Which of the following words alliterates with "meets" in Edward Arlington Robinson's "Eros Tyrannos"? She meets in his engaging mask
mask
Which of the following words would display assonance with the words "love" and "flood"?
rough
Which of the following words is an example of onomatopoeia?
splash
Scansion is
the act of determining the meter of a line
Which word or words comprise the fourth foot in the line below? "A grove extends; in tangled mazes wrought"
the second syllable in the word "tangled" and the first syllable in the word "mazes"
Stress may be defined as
the weight of emphasis placed on a syllable when it is spoken
Why should a writer use metaphors or similes?
they can sometimes convey ideas in powerful ways that literal statements could not
When do metaphors fail?
they have been used so often that readers gain nothing new from them
In poetry, feet are
units of two or three syllables
Blank verse may be defined as
unrhymed lines of poetry in iambic pantameter
What is imagery?
used to describe any sense perception that the author presents to the reader
Perfect rhyme occurs when
vowel and consonant sounds at the end of the two words are identical
The following line from Tennyson's "Ulysses" is in iambic meter. Which words carry a strong stress in this line? "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will"
weak, time, strong, will
Which lines have four feet? 1. I am a lady young in beauty waiting 2. The miller's wife had waited long 3. I have met them at close of day 4. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast
2 and 3
How many stressed syllables appear in the line below? It learns the storm-cloud's thunderous melody
5
How many feet are in the following line? "In such a night, when every louder wind"
5 feet
A literary allusion may refer to
A biblical story, a mythological story, a work of literature from the past
Which of the following is the best example of situational irony?
A woman jumps away from a sprinkler and falls into a pool
Who wrote "The Eagle"?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Who wrote "Introduction to Poetry"?
Billy Collins
Choose the line that is more onomatopoeic
Droning a drowsy syncopated tune
Who wrote "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"?
Dylan Thomas
Who wrote "Richard Cory"?
Edwin Arlington Robinson
True or False: Imagery cannot refer to a scent.
False
True or False: Metaphors are used in poetry but not is prose.
False
Who wrote "We Real Cool"?
Gwendolyn Brooks
Which of the following phrases creates parallelism with the line below? You ate fresh fish and you took long naps
I woke early and took cold swims
Who wrote "Harlem"?
Langston Hughes
Who wrote "The White City"?
McKay
Who wrote "Dolce et Decorum Est"?
Owen
Who wrote "Ozymandias"?
Percy Shelley
