English I Poetry I

In "The Runaway," for what is the horse a metaphor?

How many soldiers survived the charge?

Which of the following demonstrates hyperbole?

How does the crowd react to the umpire's calls?

Which of the following demonstrates personification?

According to the poem, the soldiers complained about going into battle, but they went, anyway, out of a sense of duty.

Thomas Carlyle said, "We are all poets when...

Which of these demonstrate near rhyme?

Blind trust can betray a person is the theme for:

A QUATRAIN has...

How many lines is a sestet?

Folk ballads often contained a lot of repetition so they're easier to remember and pass down orally.

prose

excessive pride; often a hero's downfall

Alliteration is the repetition of similar consonant sounds near one another in a work.

lyric poetry

Who cooked Lord Randal's dinner?

What is the "leather-covered sphere" or "spheroid" in Thayer's work?

Identify the rhyme scheme: rose / tune / melody / June

Action in ballads is often provided through dialog.

When Casey comes up to bat, there are two outs and bases are empty.

What are ballads?

Who wrote "Casey at the Bat"?

All poetry must rhyme.

Writing done in paragraph form is called...

Which poem is a folk ballad?

When Thayer's poem ends, why is there "no joy in Mudville"?

Language that appeals to the senses is called

a complete stop within a line of poetry

Who wrote "The Song of Wandering Aengus"?

What does it mean if a poem is written anonymously?

Pride goes before the fall is the theme for:

the word, phrase, line, or group of lines repeated throughout the poem

The words tomb and comb represent what kind of rhyme?

Poetry about feelings is called...

According to Thomas Carlyle, we are all poets when we do what?

Someone can waste his life away in the search for perfection is the theme for:

According to Frost, young people need guidance from their elders and what else?

A narrative poem is about a speaker's emotions.

Young people need guidance as well as experience is the theme for:

Which of the following is an example of figurative language?

Which of these demonstrate near rhyme?

the continuation of a line of poetry from one line into another

Mollie Millay mixes her metaphors with moxie demonstrates what alliterative letter?

Identify the rhyme scheme of the first stanza of "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Courage shown in battle should be honored, even in defeat is the theme for:

Titles of poems should be written in...

How does Tennyson believe peole should think about the 600 men who rode into the "Valley of Death"?

Who wrote "The Runaway"?

Identify the rhyme scheme for "sky, by, shaking, breaking."

Which of the following demonstrates a rhetorical question?

Where does Randal say he has been?

Who wrote "Lord Randal"?