Poetry Review

Question 1

Why do we learn about poetry?

Accepted Answer

It teaches deep thinking & expression techniques

Question 2

What is a sound device?

Accepted Answer

It is something that changes the sound of a poem

Question 3

From the Names poem, line: "I walked out barefoot/Among thousands of flowers" does NOT mean...

Accepted Answer

Someone's walking in a flower-filled field in NY

Question 4

Rhythm can be considered the same thing as meter.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Which of the following is not a "sound device"?

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 6

Which of the following is not a TYPE of poem?

Accepted Answer

Nonsense Poem

Question 7

From the "Names" poem, the line "A blue name needed into the skin" means what?

Accepted Answer

9/11 victim deaths hurt/will be remembered, like a tattoo

Question 8

What position do the words that rhyme have to be in, in order for two lines to "rhyme"?

Accepted Answer

They have to be the last words in the line.

Question 9

Cheese and Wheeze is an example of what?

Accepted Answer

Rhyme

Question 10

What does EVERY poem's first line begin with, in terms of its rhyme scheme?

Accepted Answer

A

Question 11

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of "Imagery"?

Accepted Answer

Contains sense of sight no matter what

Question 12

A Personal Response to a poem is what?

Accepted Answer

It is your (the reader's) response to what was read

Question 13

Subject, theme, and message are the same exact thing.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Which of the following is an example of personification?

Accepted Answer

The water roared while flowing toward the shore.

Question 15

Which literary technique does not use "like" or "as" to compare two things?

Accepted Answer

Metaphor

Question 16

What is a stanza?

Accepted Answer

Basically, stanzas are the "paragraphs" of poetry.

Question 17

Flies, Fries, Whine, Dine, Weight, Gate, Emancipate, Cries. What's the correct rhyme scheme?

Accepted Answer

AABBCCCA

Question 18

What is a lyric poem?

Accepted Answer

Any poem that has content on feelings & emotions

Question 19

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

Accepted Answer

The bunny was bent over the bowl.

Question 20

Which of the following is an example of a simile?

Accepted Answer

The juice was like syrup, think & sticky.

Question 21

Why do the words "cheese" and "correct" NOT contain alliteration?

Accepted Answer

Because the "ch" sound is different from the "co" sound.

Question 22

If a poem does not have a set form, with consistent rhyme scheme, it could be considered what?

Accepted Answer

Free verse; untraditional; unstructured

Question 23

How many words is too many to have in-between two words of alliteration?

Accepted Answer

About 4-5+

Question 24

Now, how many syllables does this question clearly have?

Accepted Answer

14 or 15

Question 25

When there's repetition in a poem, it can be a repeated phrase OR a word. True or False?

Accepted Answer

Yes, with the exception of articles.

Question 26

What is an onomatopoeia?

Accepted Answer

A sound spelled out, like "CRACK!"

Question 27

Each stanza should contain different ____________?

Accepted Answer

messages

Question 28

Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

The building was a pyramid of a structure.

Question 29

How many syllables does this question have?

Accepted Answer

11

Question 30

The line "Names rising in the updraft amid buildings" from the Names poem means what?

Accepted Answer

Deaths (names) were floating away with the ash into the air

Poetry Review

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Poetry Review

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