poetry term review: English 1

Question 1

Which poetic device "lends human abilities or characteristics to nonhuman objects"?

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personification

Question 2

In "Who are you, little i?" the speaker is

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an older person recalling a childhood memory

Question 3

In "Sympathy" p. 362 the "caged bird" is a metaphor for

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an African American person during the Jim Crow Era (Reconstruction)

Question 4

Which poetic device uses "like" or "as" to "compare unlike objects"?

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simile

Question 5

In "The Lesson of the Moth" on p. 140, what does the word immolated mean?

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to die by fire

Question 6

In "American Hero" (p. 573), the basketball player compares his action on the court to

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dancing

Question 7

In "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" (p. 490), what is the speaker's overall attitude toward "nature's people"?

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accepting

Question 8

"Ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree" is an example of

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alliteration

Question 9

In "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" (p. 595) why are lines 11 & 12 significant?

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Hope is in all of us, yet it is never fed by any of us.

Question 10

In "Sympathy" p. 362, what injuries (think Jim Crow) caused the bird's "old scars" and "bruised wing" and "sore chest"?

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Discrimination and segregation prevented African Americans from being equal

Question 11

In "Who are you, little i?" the words "November" and "sunset" and "gold" seem to indicate that

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the speaker is positive about the beauty of life in his/ her later years

Question 12

In "American Hero" (p. 573), what word group best showcases the action of the basketball players in the poem?

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choke, slap, slam, panting

Question 13

In "The Man from Washington" p. 449 in line 7, what poetic device is used to describe the government official?

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metaphor

Question 14

In "My Papa's Waltz (p. 563), what do we readers learn about the speaker's father? He is a man who

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works with his hands and drinks whiskey

Question 15

In "Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners" p. 471, what TONE does the speaker take toward words that are tricky?

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lighthearted

Question 16

In the poem "The Lesson of the Moth" on p. 140, who is the speaker in the poem?

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both Archy the cockroach and the moth

Question 17

"Im so hungry I could eat a horse" is an example of

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hyperbole

Question 18

In "Sympathy" p. 362 why does the bird continue to sing while it's caged?

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The bird sings - continues to use its voice- to fight for freedom.

Question 19

In "Southbound on the Freeway" p. 528, who is the speaker of the poem?

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an alien parked in the air above the freeway

Question 20

What term below is "an exaggeration"?

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hyperbole

Question 21

In "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" p. 490, why does the poet choose to make the speaker a boy? During this time period,

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boys were thought to run around outside barefoot more than girls

Question 22

What is an allusion?

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a reference to a book, a character, or to an historical event or person

Question 23

In "If There Be Sorrow" p. 324, why does poet Mari Evans set "Love withheld.../ restrained" apart from her other lines?

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It is the MOST important example of the four "sorrows" she writes about.

Question 24

In "My Father's Song", what important lesson does the speaker learn from this particular experience with his father?

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a respect for all life forms

Question 25

What is the rhyme scheme of "My Papa's Waltz" p. 563?

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abab, cdcd, efef, ghgh

Question 26

Which of the following poetic devices is STRONGER than the other?

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a metaphor

Question 27

In the poem "Hate" on p. 91, the PRIMARY poetic device comparing hate to a snake bite is called

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metaphor

Question 28

"The wind whispered in the trees" is an example of

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personification

Question 29

Words that "sound like the sounds they represent" are called

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onomatopoeia

Question 30

In "My Papa's Waltz" (p. 563) rhythm is key. In fact, like the waltz, each line has

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three accented syllables

Question 31

What is the setting of the poem "Fog" (p. 503)?

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by a metropolis (a city) on a body of water

Question 32

In "The Man from Washington" p. 449, what does the word inoculated mean?

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to be vaccinated against

Question 33

In "The Lesson of the Moth" at THE END of the poem, Archy the cockroach wishes

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that he had as much passion as the moth.

Question 34

In "Prologue" p. 423, the poet uses the metaphor of a fish to describe what U.S. city?

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New York City

Question 35

In "prologue" p. 423 why does the speaker's perspective narrow from the broad universe to a particular neighborhood?

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It emphasizes this theme: friendship makes us significant in the universe

Question 36

In "Lost" p. 493, how do we readers figure out that the boat must be an infant or toddler?

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the line "Hunting the harbor's breast/ And the harbor's eyes"

Question 37

In "The World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be" p. 416, why does the poet NOT repeat "to hold and be held by" at the end?

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It emphasizes how alone we are without others.

Question 38

In "Forgive My Guilt" the "tender flutes of sorrow are the wounded, crying birds. This is an example of

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metaphor

Question 39

In "the World is Not a Pleasant Place to Be" p. 416, what device is used to describe the ocean and clouds?

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personification

Question 40

What is the THEME of the poem "This Morning" p. 299?

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celebrate your own personal identity

Question 41

Which TWO poetic devices are defined as "comparisons of unlike objects"?

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simile and metaphor

Question 42

In "My Papa's Waltz" (p. 563) the word "countenance" means

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face

Question 43

In "Fire and Ice' p. 541, Frost creates metaphors: fire is ---; ice is ---.

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desire and hate

Question 44

In "Fog" p. 503, how does Sandburg compare fog to a cat?

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the fog "sits" and is silent: fog is sneaky like a cat

Question 45

Words like "splatter" and "splosh" and "plop" and "hum" are all examples of

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onomatopoeia

Question 46

In "The Road Not Taken" ( p. 602), what do these lines mean? "I took the one less traveled by,/ And that has made all..

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The speaker made a choice few others did which changed life significantly.

Question 47

In "My Papa's Waltz" (p. 563), how might we readers describe the relationship between the son and his father?

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It is rowdy, yet caring.

Question 48

Which poetic device is "the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words"?

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alliteration

Question 49

Which of the following is an example of a Biblical allusion?

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"When I cried out my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me."

Question 50

The entire poem "Hope Is the Thing with Feathers" (p. 595) is an extended

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metaphor

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