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POETIC DEVICES & Foster
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#review of poetic devices and content from Stephen Foster's How to Read LIterature like a Professor
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An apple in a story may suggest
A murder is being foreshadowed
The protagonist will make pie
temptation
a plot twist
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What type of weather in a story can suggest blurring the line between reality and a dream world?
fog
hail
rain
snow
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The influence of earlier texts, such as Shakespeare's plays, on modern texts is known as
soliloquy
intertextuality
infrastructure
polysyndeton
4
The volta at the end of Sonnet 130 ("My mistress") reveals
Shakespeare bases love on appearances only.
the poet loves his mistress for who she really is
the poet thinks his lover is ugly
the poet will love his mistress more if she fixes her hair
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a line of 5 stressed syllables
trochaic tetameter
iambic pentameter
daytyllic octometer
fluidic speedometer
6
the rhythm of a poem
stress
rhyme
meter
diction
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ID lit. device: I peeled my orange/that was so bright against/the gray of December
visual imagery
simile
personification
allusion
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Rain in a story can indicate
revenge
transformation
retribution
restoration
9
Which of the following is NOT a step in a quest?
a premonitory dream
a stated reason to go there
challenges and trials
a place to go
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ref. to another work of lit. or historical event
allusion
figurative language
connotation
irony
11
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
257
18
5,270
154
12
Biblical references in a story
appeal only to Christians
give the story a timeless feel
guarantee the book will be a bestseller
provides slapstick comedy
13
The Grink having a heart two sizes too small indicates his character is
loving and generous
worthy of redemption
in need of a pacemaker
insensitive and stingy
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ID poetic device: And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare/as any she belied with false compare
volta
alliteration
internal rhyme
personification
15
According to Foster, myth
includes the Bible and stories about Greek gods
does not refer to deeply held religious beliefs
is a body of story that matters
is a means of explaining ourselves to ourselves
16
The poem "Chicago" is this type of poem:
semi-colon
poem of address
apostrophe
sonnet
17
an object, character, situation, or action that represents something beyond itself
metaphor
symbol
enjambment
juxtaposition
18
repetition at close intervals of beginning consonant sounds
consonance
assonance
alliteration
onomotopoeia
19
Stories about the loss of innocence are re-enactments of
the biblical story of Adam & Even in the Garden of Eden
the civil war
The Greek myth, The Odyssey
Stranger Things
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A type of rhyme with words that have similar, but not identical sounds
determination
internal rhyme
alliteration
perfect rhyme
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phrases or images placed side by side for a certain effect, e.g. contrast or irony
paradox
juxtaposition
enjambment
limited omniscient
22
"Pow", "Bang", "Slurp"
onomotopoeia
huh
volta
first line of a famous haiku poem
23
poetry that is unrhymed but has a consistent meter
adverse
blank verse
free verse
reverse
24
Which of the following is NOT a way to recognize a potential Christ figure in a story?
walks with a limp
has wounds in his hands
comes to redeem an unworthy world
is a fisherman
25
When a thought stops at the end of a line of poetry
free verse
juxtaposition
end-stopped line
enjambment
26
ID poetic device: Fogs hanging like old/Coats between trees
personification
alliteration
simile
kinesthetic imagery
27
Shakespearean character trope that appears in
Taming of the Shrew,
Romeo & Juliet & Little Mermaid
best friend dies
overbearing father
opposite siblings
tyrant takes kingdom over from rightful ruler
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writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject
connotation
meter
tone
mood
29
a statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements
paradox
metaphor
alliteration
satire
30
An allegory
only appears in poetry
can represent a historical event in symbolic terms
has many interpretations
has only one interpretation
31
the use of language to call up a physical sensation
metaphor
connotation
diction
sensory imagery
32
ID lit. device: . . . in some perfume is there more delight/than in the breath that from my mistress reeks
kinesthetic imagery
allusion
visual imagery
situational irony
33
When the thought runs over into the next line of a poem
end-stopped
Fosbery flop
juxtaposition
enjambment
34
ID poetic device: "Redness, brass, ladders and hats hurl past/ Blurring to sheer verb"
consonance
alliteration
metaphor
juxtaposition
35
The Foster book is written
for anyone new to lit. analysis
for people who are already skilled in lit. analysis
to torture students
for people who like to overthink things
36
Which season represents rebirth?
winter
summer
autumn
spring
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ID poetic device: We/Lurk Late. We/ Strike straight
consonance
personification
olfactory imagery
hyperbole
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A snake showing up in a beautiful setting may suggest
loyalty to a good cause
an out-of-control mice population
introduction of evil
the story will end happily
39
Referring a a motorcycle as a "ready companion" is an example of
anthropomorphism
multiplication
juxtaposition
personification
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ID poetic device: But never met this Fellow . . . alone/without a tighter breathing/and zero at the bone
kinesthetic imagery
visual imagery
alliteration
assonance
41
Which of these statements about Atticus does NOT present him as a potential Christ figure?
he is a skilled marksman
he confronts evil in the form of Bob Ewell
he is good with children
he risks his safety to defend Tom Robinson
42
Fill in blank: My mistress' eyes are nothing like ______
hell
the moon
sun
roses
43
What is always the real reason for a quest?
to defeat one's archrival
victory
self-knowledge and/or spiritual/emotional growth
to find one's soulmate
44
Key elements of the language of reading, that allow you to deeply engage with the text, are
plot, setting, and character
dialogue and monologue
car chases and romance
memory, symbol, and pattern
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a poem of 14 lines, usually about love, ending in a rhyming couplet
ballad
sonnet
iambic pentameter
pantoum
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imagery that describes movement in the joints or bones
thermal
visual
kinesthetic
auditory
47
The season of fall in a story can represent
middle age
death
rebirth
romance
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ID poetic device: "Imagine the drip of it,/the small splash, echo/in a tin mug"
consonance
kinesthetic imagery
end rhyme
sound imagery
49
a minor character who contrasts with a major character
dynamic
foil
stereotyp
round
50
giving human qualities to an inanimate object
polysyndeton
amplification
personification
juxtaposition
51
repetition of ending consonant sounds at close intervals
onomotopoeia
consonance
assonance
alliteration
52
An abrupt turn in thought, often indicated by "but" or "yet"
allusion
sonnet
iambic pentameter
volta
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A Japanese chain poem started with a haiku
konichiwa
kotodama
renga
sushi
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a poem that addresses a person, place, or thing, such as "Chicago"
free verse
sonnet
apostrophe
haiku
