Poetry Review Edwards

Question 1

"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquility" was written by

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William Wordsworth

Question 2

"Some say love, it is a river That drowns the tender reed" is an example of

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a metaphor

Question 3

"The fog comes on little cat feet" is an example of

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personification.

Question 4

What is the poetry analysis step whereby the kinds of words determine the feeling a reader gets?

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Step # 8 - attitude

Question 5

How many steps do we use when analyzing poetry?

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11

Question 6

What poetry analysis step is denotation associated with?

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Step # 5

Question 7

What is "when the author uses something that is repeated over and over?

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Repetition

Question 8

What term is when the poet brings attention to something by downplaying its importance or impact?

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Understatement

Question 9

When an author uses particularly placed words to create pictures, this is called

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Sensory Imagery

Question 10

What poetry analysis step is when you 'infer' its meaning?

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Step # 7

Question 11

"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood" is an example of which kind of sensory imagery?

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Sight

Question 12

Giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects is

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personification.

Question 13

What is the term for the lesson we learn from the meaning of a poem?

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Theme

Question 14

What is the term when an author creates lines that physically end before the meaning ends?

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Enjambed Lines

Question 15

Another word for a sound device that poets use is called

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onomatopoeia

Question 16

Which step is DOUBLE DENOTATION affiliated with?

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Step #7 Connotation

Question 17

A direct comparison using like or as is a

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simile

Question 18

:Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" is an example of using _______ in poetry.

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sound.

Question 19

In poetry, what is when the reader or poet feels one way and then feels another way?

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Shift

Question 20

"Oh oh, I would go through all this pain Take a bullet straight through my brain" is an example of

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hyperbole.

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