Questions from our readings

Question 1

What is the name for the type of meter that is one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable?

Accepted Answer

Iambic

Question 2

In analysis paragraphs, you cite poems using...

Accepted Answer

Line numbers

Question 3

What is the name for a stanza that has 4 lines in it?

Accepted Answer

Quatrain

Question 4

What text contains this line? "I celebrate myself and sing myself"

Accepted Answer

Song of Myself

Question 5

Dickinson uses irregular capitalization in her poems.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

According to Audre Lorde, "Poetry is not a..."

Accepted Answer

Luxury

Question 7

Who wrote "The Slave Mother"?

Accepted Answer

Frances Harper

Question 8

"next to of course god america i" is an irregular sonnet

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

Which of the following things does the speaker from Dickinson&#x27;s 353 not mention?

Accepted Answer

My cat

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT a trait of Modernist Literature?

Accepted Answer

Harmony and Resolution

Question 11

"Hills Like White Elephants" takes place at a train station

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

In My Bondage and My Freedom, Douglass&#x27; mother brought him...

Accepted Answer

Cake

Question 13

The narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" is a mother

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

What does "The Black Cat" narrator use to kill his wife?

Accepted Answer

An axe

Question 15

What is the name of the narrator&#x27;s husband in "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

Accepted Answer

John

Question 16

Which poem says, "In this kingdom by the sea"?

Accepted Answer

"Annabel Lee"

Question 17

Which text dispels the myth that Jesus was white?

Accepted Answer

Apess "An Indian&#x27;s Looking Glass for the White Man"

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