Poetry Unit Final Review

Question 1

“...Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…”

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Assonance

Question 2

situation where there is a mixture of harsh and inharmonious sounds

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Cacophony

Question 3

I’m a riddle in nine syllables, / An elephant, a ponderous house,

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Metaphor

Question 4

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind...

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Sense of Touch

Question 5

a figure of speech where one word is substituted for another w/ which it is closely associated

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Metonymy

Question 6

I am of one element,/ Levity my matter,/ Like enough a withered leaf/ For the winds to scatter

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Symbolism

Question 7

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, / How I wonder what you are.

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Apostrophe

Question 8

The buzz saw snarled & rattled in the yard/And made dust & dropped stove-length sticks of wood

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Metaphor

Question 9

My heart leaps up when I behold / A rainbow in the sky.

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Symbol

Question 10

Poetic Form: 3 Quatrains and 1 couplet

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Shakespearean Sonnet

Question 11

an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea

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Apostrophe

Question 12

a number of words, having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series

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Alliteration

Question 13

I’m a riddle in nine syllables, / An elephant, a ponderous house,

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Vehicles

Question 14

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

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Assonance

Question 15

A foot in the meter of a line that contains stressed, unstressed syllables in that order.

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Trochaic

Question 16

These two literary devices are types of metaphors:

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Synecdoche & Metonymy

Question 17

Poetic Form: 1 octet (8 line stanza) and 1 sestet (6 line stanza)

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Italian Sonnet

Question 18

Name the meter: Today I had a rotten day / As I was coming in from play

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Iambic Tetrameter

Question 19

The woods are getting ready to sleep..they are disrobing...and whisperings and good-nights.”

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Personification

Question 20

A foot in the meter of a line that contains unstressed, stressed syllables in that order.

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Iambic

Question 21

And then-the watcher at his pulse took fright.

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Metonymy

Question 22

Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul

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Metaphor

Question 23

Sally had a smile that rivaled that of the Mona Lisa.

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Allusion

Question 24

Poised between going on and back, pulled / Both ways taut like a tightrope-walker…

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Simile

Question 25

two+ words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound start w/ diff consonant sounds

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Assonance

Question 26

repetitive sounds, in quick succession, produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase

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Consonance

Question 27

She fell for him, knowing that he was nothing less than a Casanova.

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Allusion

Question 28

Name the meter: ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house

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Anapestic tetrameter

Question 29

The "tenor" refers to:

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the subject of a metaphor

Question 30

the rhetorical strategy of extending a metaphor through an entire narrative

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Allegory

Question 31

a part of something that is substituted to stand in for the whole

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Synecdoche

Question 32

The "turn" or the "volta" in a sonnet is also considered:

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a shift

Question 33

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me

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Apostrophe

Question 34

Name the meter: Little Lamb, who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?

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Trochaic trimeter

Question 35

Fair is Foul, Foul is Fair.

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Assonance

Question 36

Down in the street little eddies of wind were whirling dust and torn paper into spirals

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Sense of Sight

Question 37

“And you found he was an Oxford man,” said Jordan helpfully.

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Synecdoche

Question 38

A foot in the meter of a line that contains 1 stressed and 2 unstressed syllables in that order

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Dactylic

Question 39

“When well-appareled April on the heel / Of limping winter treads.”

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Personification

Question 40

A foot in the meter of a line that contains 2 unstressed and 1 stressed syllables in that order

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Anapestic

Question 41

He gives his harness bells a shake / To ask if there is some mistake.

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Sense of Sound

Question 42

One day, / For our delight we read of Lancelot, /How him love thrall’d.

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Allusion

Question 43

The Eyes around – had wrung them dry / – And Breaths were gathering firm

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Synecdoche

Question 44

The Moon’s a snowball, melted down / A dozen times a year.

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The tenor is the "Moon".

Question 45

We passed the School, where Children strove / At Recess, in the Ring

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Two examples of metonymy.

Question 46

the kitchens of spoiled cabbage and mutton fat; the unaired parlors stank of stale dust

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Sense of Smell

Question 47

All mimsy were the borogoves,an /And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Cacophony

Question 48

Poetic Form: 5 tercets, 1 quatrain w/ 1st and 3rd lines repeating alternately throughout poem

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Villanelle

Question 49

Aside from Cacophony: ‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;

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Consonance

Question 50

Where bashful flowers blow,/And blushing birds go down to drink,/And shadows tremble so?”

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Personification

Poetry Unit Final Review

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Poetry Unit Final Review

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