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Poetry Quiz 6 (60 MCQs)

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1. What is a pattern of stressed/unstressed syllables?
2. Which writer said, "Freedom's just an illusion, that's my conclusion?"
3. If the baby rests a little longer, she will grow .....
4. What is writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme?
5. The use of words whose sound suggest their meaning:hum, click, and boom, are examples of:
6. Why isn't "The Passionate Shepherd" very realistic?
7. A traditional form of Japanese poetry about nature; has 3 lines and 17 syllables (5-7-5)
8. The author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem
9. Words at the end of lines that rhyme are called .....
10. Which writing materials were used to write poetry?
11. Which description of a setting would best create a mood of loneliness for a story?
12. What is another name for a play?
13. What is NOT true of sonnet form?
14. Where would you find setting?
15. Why does the speaker give the cashier money and one of his oranges?
16. The ..... is the feeling the poet is trying to convey.
17. The free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wings in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky.QUESTION:What tone do these lines in the poem convey?
18. In A POISON TREE, From stanza 1, who is the persona angry with at first?
19. Shelly sells shells by the seashore
20. Why was the printing press an important new invention that changed the audience for literature?
21. Repeated consonant sounds at the ENDS of wordsOn the top of the step he will tip his cap .
22. How do you structure you answer to part a (30 minutes)
23. One of the elements of Gothic literature is ..... settings like decaying castles, haunted houses, and trapdoors or cellars.
24. "The willow is sleek as a velvet-nosed calf; The ginkgo is leathery as an old bull. The willow's branches are like silken thread; The ginkgo's like stubby rough wool." In this stanza, t he speaker sees the two trees as
25. In his poem "On My First Sonne, " Jonson says his sin is .....
26. What genre is Ovid's Metamorphoses?
27. A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space. It looks like a "paragraph" of poetry.
28. Which of these was the biggest difference in message between Angelou's and Cole's 'Caged Bird' poem?
29. What type of literature did Catullus primarily write?
30. A comparison made not using like or as
31. What is a a pattern of end rhymes that occurs consistently throughout a stanza or poem?
32. Stage directions are usually in [ ] and found in
33. Improvements in the production of literature meant
34. What can you infer the mood of a story will be if the weather, as described by the author, is "stormy with approaching cloudy skies and the threat of rain."
35. The use of words, such as "buzz" or "splash", that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
36. Who wrote this poem?
37. A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
38. What is this?"fishing boats strung out like bunting"
39. How long should you spend on the first part of unseen poetry?
40. Language that appeals to one or more of the five senses is called .....
41. A section of a poem is called?
42. What historical event sparked the romantic movement?
43. Imagery in poetry or in writing is
44. A poem in which the ends of the lines have words that sound the same
45. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. Is and example of .....
46. Which sentence from the choices below supports that the computer was not working properly?
47. Which of the following sets of words deal mostly with the sense of TASTE?
48. Which word does not rhyme with the following three?kitelightrewrite
49. The ..... saved the mouse from the mongoose and the owl.
50. Which author wrote The Tyger?
51. What is the repeating of a word or phrase within a poem to create a sense of rhythm?
52. All sonnets must contain
53. Writing or speech not to be taken literally
54. Occurs when a reader or an audience knows things a character does not and, consequently, hears things differently
55. A pattern of end rhyme within a poem.
56. A transition in a stanza is when there is change in the mood, tone, idea, speaker, or point of view ..... What is this called in poetry?
57. A reference to an important event, person, or object with which the writer believes the reader will know in order to elicit a response from the reader
58. Creates vivid word pictures; language that engages the five senses
59. Read the following poem:How many LINES are in this poem?AppetiteIn a house the size of a postage stamplived a man as big as a bargeHis mouth could drink the entire riverYou could say it was rather largeFor dinner he would eat a trillion beansAnd a silo full of gran.
60. Free verse poems
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