English II Test - Poetry
blatant exaggeration =
hyperbole
comparison without like or as =
metaphor
attributing human characteristics to inanimate objects =
personification
comparison using like or as =
simile
Everyday words such as sheep and knife are not suitable for use in poetry. True or False?
False
The line "Love bade me welcome" is a simile. True or False?
False
What the most common types of sonnets?
- Petrarchan - Shakespearean
"O Captain! my Captain!" a line addressed to the assassinated President Lincoln, is an example of apostrophe. True or False?
True
"To see the world in a grain of sand" is an example of paradox. True or False?
True
"Whooshing winds" is an example of onomatopoeia. True or False?
True
If a poet writes that a flower smiled or that the wind breathed softly, he is using personification. True or False?
True
The line "Fainting I follow, I leave off therefore" contains both a caesura and alliteration. True or False?
True
The line "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting" is both a metaphor and a paradox. True or False?
True
The use of the words "three suns" to mean "three days" is an example of metonymy. True or False?
True
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words is called _________________.
alliteration
Two successive lines of verse that rhyme with one another are called a ______________.
couplet
An example of an iambic foot is the word ____________.
de note'
Blank verse is unrhymed ______________________.
iambic pentameter
discrepancy between what is said and what is meant =
irony
According to the text, the most important distinction between most poetry and all types of prose is ___________.
meter
A poetic device used to imitate natural sound is ______________________.
onomatopoeia
Poetry written in triplets rhymed aba, bcb, cdc, etc. is ______________.
terza rima
The line "Say that health and wealth have missed me" is an example of _________________________.
trochaic tetrameter
The spondee, a substitute foot, has _____ accent(s).
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