measured arrangement of beats in a line of verse

A lyric poem and a ballad differ in that...

the first focuses on emotion and the second tells a story.

when one line runs on into the next without punctuation

when the rhyme sound occurs with a word inside a line

The main premise of "Fog" is...

a metaphor involving fog and a cat.

slant/half/oblique rhyme

words that have similar sounds, but do not straight up rhyme

the method for showing end rhyme using letters

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meter
measured arrangement of beats in a line of verse
This is America. We don't use the metric system.
a precise accounting for each rhyme structure
a way to address the measurement of a poem's entire structure
2
Determine the tone: None is travelling / Here along this way but I, / This autumn evening.
impatient, cold, alone
happy, pleased, jolly
still, quiet, content
scared, worried, ominous
3
Which of the following word pairs exemplifies slant rhyme?
kind/strange
table/maple
cough/enough
heart/part
4
How do we refer to a moment in a poem?
Thoroughly describe the moment
Refer to the page number where the poem is found
Reference the poet by last name
Reference the line numbers
5
assonance
repetition of consonants
repetition in general
repetition of vowels
repetition of ideas
6
A lyric poem and a ballad differ in that...
False question - they are the same.
the first focuses on emotion and the second tells a story.
the first is a song and the second is passed down orally.
the first requires music and the second involves ballerinas.
7
Which type of figurative language is most evident in this poem excerpt?
metaphors
onomatopoeia
alliteration
personification
8
free verse
poetry that is free of rules
poetry that uses iambic pentameter
poetry that yearns to express individuality through creative expressions
poetry that is bound by a simple rhyme scheme
9
enjambment
when a rhyme is built inside a line of verse
when a rhyme occurs at the end of two lines
when one line runs on into the next without punctuation
when two consecutive lines end with a period
10
internal rhyme
when rhyme occurs inside each line of verse
when a rhyme occurs at the beginning of lines as opposed to at the end
when a rhyme occurs inside your mind
when the rhyme sound occurs with a word inside a line
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alliteration
repetition of ideas
repetition of vowels
repetition in general
repetition of consonants
12
The hope that shone bright / crashed in a lonely quarter - / Oh football! Such pain!
lyric poem
free verse
haiku
ballad
13
The main premise of "Fog" is...
that the fog is personified.
a metaphor involving fog and a cat.
that fog and cats behave the same.
irony that fog and cats are similar.
14
slant/half/oblique rhyme
words that are written halfway
words that have similar sounds, but do not straight up rhyme
words that are similar to one another in connotation
words whose prefix OR suffix is identical
15
rhyme scheme
when poetry plots together against us
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
a method for showing the measured beats in each line of verse
the method for showing end rhyme using letters
16
His bill an auger is, / His head, a cap and frill. / He laboreth at every tree, — / A worm his utmost goal.
A man cutting down a tree
A "parent" bird finding worms for baby birds
A nest of baby birds
A woodpecker
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The holding penalties did hurt / the progress we were molding.
internal rhyme
end rhyme
near rhyme
half/slant rhyme

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