9th Grammar Test 9

Linguistics _____ a class that has helped me to become a better communicator.

Alex and Tatiana want to give ____ mother a collection of poems by Donne.

Our poetry book and our literature anthology have a clear definition of a conceit in ______ glossaries.

Our literature class _____ formed a poetry club.

There _____ five metrical feet in iambic pentameter.

Each _______ been encouraging with his comments.

A heroic couplet _____ two rhymed lines of iambic pentamenter.

Octameter _____ eight feet.

The words "bang" and "crash" _____ examples of onomatopoeia.

Several of the girls in my class told me that SHE will memorize a Vaughan poem.

Rhyme and meter ______ important to a poem.

Most of my friends could find where HE had written the fact that Vaughan and Herbert both wrote poems entitled "Man."

"Easter Wings" ____ one of the poems we read.

Few have already memorized HIS poems.

_______ riches the topic of any of Donne's poems?

When poets _____ alliteration, they repeat the same consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

Shakespeare and the Earl of Surrey, not Wordsworth, _____ sixteenth-century sonneteers.

Both William Baxter and John Wesley showed ______ esteem for Herbert's poetry.

All of the class will be expected to recite ITS poems in front of the other students in the room.

Two hours ____ what we need to complete our poetry-reading assignment.

However, most of my writing ______ to improve.

The meter of sonnets _____ iambic pentameter.

Either the boys or Mr. Spencer will discuss ______ impressions of metaphysical poetry.

Anyone who cannot remember THEIR lines will be allowed to start the poem a second time.

Did you know that one of Vaughan's poems shares ITS title with a Herbert poem?

Either Herbert or Donne wrote a collection of poems that ______ entitled "The Temple."

The structure of Italian sonnets _____ divided into two parts.

"All kings, and all their favorites" ______ the first line of John Donne's "The Anniversary."

I trust that no one will forget HIS lines.

All of the poems _____ by George Herbert.

Figures of thought or figures of speech _______ apostrophe, personification, and metaphor.

_______ irony also a figure of speech?

Either Janice or her two friends ______ to recite a poem for the speech competition.

Neither Marcy nor the other students have started to write ______ poetry-analysis paper.

The English faculty _____ critiquing their own students' poems.

Herbert's "The Altar" or his poem "Church Monuments" has a specific shape to _____ structure.

Not all poems ______ these features, however.

Some of my class had to double-check HIS notes to remember which poem it was.

An anapest and a dactyle, but not a trochee, ____ two unstressed syllables and one stressed syllable.

Neither rhyming lines nor meter _______ in free verse.

Here ____ a book of poetry that belonged to my great-grandmother.

Everyone in the class is to have THEIR poem memorized by Friday.

Many have realized that Vaughan's "Peace" will not be a difficult poem for HER to manage.

Both Herbert and Donne wrote ______ poetry in a devotional style.

A conceit is a feature of metaphysical poetry. Sixteenth-century poets often employed ____ in their poetry.

Marcy or David will discuss Herbert's "Redemption" in _____ paper.

Both alliteration and onomatopoeia _______ figures of sound in poetry.

A poem _________ of several elements.

She, not my grandparents, ______ a contemporary of the poet Christina Rossetti.

A quatrain ____ four lines.