Poetry- Monarch - Quizzes 1-3
The poet who wrote "Birches" was _____. 1. Walt Whitman 2. Robert Frost 3. Edwin Markham 4. James Russell Lowell
Robert Frost
trimeter
three-foot line
three feet
trimeter
Read the following poem by Emily Dickinson and answer the questions. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit-Life! the meter: (iambic/dactylic/trochaic) the length of the first and third lines: (dimeter/trimeter/ pentameter) the rhyme scheme: (abab/abcb/abcd) .
trochaic trimeter abcb
The word bubble is scanned as a(n) _____. 1. iamb 2. dactyl 3. anapest 4. trochee
trochee
A sonnet has fourteen lines. true or false
true
Rein and brain are examples of: 1. eye rhyme 2. true rhyme 3. alliteration 4. consonance
true rhyme
A spondee is a foot composed of _____. 1. two accented syllables 2. two unaccented syllables 3. an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable 4. an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable
two accented syllables
"Thanatopsis"
"Go forth under the open sky and list/ To Nature's teachings . . . "
"By This We Know Love"
"God's wrath on God was hurled and I go free!"
"The Man with the Hoe"
"Is this the handiwork you gave to God,"
"The Courtin'"
"Like streams that keep a summer mind/ Snow-hid in Jenooary."
"Come Up from the Fields, Father"
"Open the envelope quickly . . . "
"Upon the Burning of Our House"
"The World not longer let me love,/ My hope and treasure lies above."
"The Unknown Citizen"
"Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd . . . "
A metrical foot is a random pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. true or false
False
A spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two unaccented syllables. true or false
False
An anapest has two syllables. true or false
False
An iamb is a three-syllable foot. true or false
False
Bryant found no comfort in nature. true or false
False
In "The Man with the Hoe," the poet is concerned with the beauties of life in the country. true or false
False
Perfect rhyme consists of identically spelled words but varied pronunciations. true or false
False
Poetry deals with only a narrow scope of life experiences. true or false
False
The line, "O masters, lords, and rulers in all lands," is an example of trochaic pentameter. true or false
False
The poem, "The Unknown Citizen," points out the uniqueness of each individual man as seen through the eyes of society. true or false
False
The word sneer has neither positive nor negative connotations. true or false
False
The poem, "Annabel Lee," was written by Longfellow. true or false
Flase
Select the most common metrical feet consisting of two syllables each. 1. anapest 2. dactyl 3. iamb 4. trochee
Iamb trochee
A poem in which the poet writes about something that he feels or responds to emotionally is in the (Sonnet/ lyric/narrative) style.
Lyric
Dickinson's "PINK, small, and punctual" describes a (Mayflower/rose/daisy) .
Mayflower
The technique of reading a poem to determine its meter and line length is _____. 1. scansion 2. imagery 3. connotation 4. identification
Scansion
"Fresh as a daisy," is an example of a cliché. true or false
True
A major characteristic of poetry is the compression of images into the fewest number of words. true or false
True
A narrative poem tells a story. true or false
True
Anne Bradstreet had a deep personal faith in God. true or false
True
If the line ends on a stressed syllable, the line is considered masculine. true or false
True
In "Come Up from the Fields, Father," the poet draws a poignant picture of a mother's grief for her soldier son. true or false
True
In scansion, an unstressed syllable is marked... true or false
True
Pantheism is the belief that all of nature is God and that God is all of nature. true or false
True
The poem, "Thanatopsis," asserts that man should take comfort in reunion with nature at death. true or false
True
faith
a conviction or belief held without need for proof
A line ending in a stressed syllable is said to have _____. 1. a feminine ending 2. a masculine ending 3. a metrical set 4. a rhyme scheme
a masculine ending
rhyme scheme
a pattern of rhymes in a stanza or poem
A metrical foot can best be described as _____. 1. a cadence like natural speech 2.a pattern of accented and unaccented syllables 3. a type of rhyme 4. the imitation of natural sounds
a pattern of unaccented and and accented syllables
ideal
a perfect model
Read the poem and answer the question. Nature As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead, Which, though more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. ——Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the rhyme scheme: (abcd abcd cde cde/abba abba cde cde/abab abab abc abc) the dominant meter and line length of the poem: (Iambic pentameter/trochaic pentameter/ iambic trimeter) the style of this poem: (Sonnet/free style/narrative)
abba abba cde cde iambic pentameter sonnet
The musical effect that involves repetition of a consonant or vowel sound on the stressed syllables of adjacent or nearby words is _____. 1. consonance 2. alliteration 3. assonance 4. onomatopoeia
alliteration
Read the following poem by Emily Dickinson and answer the questions. Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the culprit-Life! They and take are examples of (alliteration/consonance/assonance). They and the are examples of (alliteration/consonance/assonance).
assonance alliteration
An epic poem would most likely be written in _____. 1. free verse 2. blank verse 3. rhymed verse 4. trochaic meter
blank verse
Whitman was primarily concerned with _____. 1. faith in God 2. hope and its betrayal 3. brotherly love 4. the fulfillment of hope
brotherly love
The emotional impact of a word depends upon its (use/connotation/denotation)
connotation
alliteration
consonant or vowel sound repeating on stressed syllables
Two feet
dimeter
In true rhyme the correspondence of sound must be (exact/initial), the (exact/ initial) consonants of the accented syllables must be different, and the rhymed words must be accented on (the same/different) syllables.
exact initial the same
hope
expectation of fulfillment of a desire
octave
first eight lines of a sonnet
pentameter
five metrical feet to a line
Seven feet
heptameter
Five feet
hexameter
Six feet
hexameter
In the proverb, "A stitch in time saves nine," the words nine and time illustrate _____. 1. imperfect rhyme 2. eye rhyme 3. alliteration 4. consonance
imperfect rhyme
idealistic love
love focused upon God or upon some cause higher than self
brotherly love
love for other human beings based on common humanity
An image in which one thing is directly called another is a (simile/metaphor/personification)
metaphor
One foot
monometer
A ballad is a form of _____. 1. free verse 2. lyric poetry 3. blank verse 4. narrative poetry
narrative poetry
pantheism
nature is God
free verse
no meter, no rhyme
Eight feet
octameter
simile
one thing is like another
Whistle and rumble are examples of (alliteration, consonance, onomatopoeia)
onomatopoeia
Lyric poetry is best suited to _____. 1. serious themes 2. stories 3. personal observations 4. literary criticism
personal observations
An image in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics is called (simile/metaphor/personification) .
personification
assonance
repetition of a vowel sound in a series of words
Each of the following is a Christian universal except _____. 1. faith 2. hope 3. service 4. love
service
spondee
substitute foot; two accented syllables
connotation
suggestion
A line length of four feet per line is termed _____. 1. pentameter 2. tetrameter 3. hexameter 4. heptameter
tetrameter
Four feet
tetrameter
