Eng II Poetry 2 Quiz

A person, object, or experience that has two levels of meaning—the literal meaning and a figurative representation of the meaning—is

• a parody.

• motif.

• personification.

• a symbol.

Which of these lines from “Reapers” do you think uses alliteration?

• “Black horses drive a mower”

• “cutting weeds and shade”

• “And there, a field rate, startled”

• “And start their silent swinging”

What do you think is the literary element in “The stiff Heart questions”?

• personification

• personification

• apostrophe

• metaphor

Which of these lines employs the poetic device of repetition?

• “past the puff-cheeked clouds”

• “her braids loose, she laughs like a fire”

• “They sow and sow and sow”

• “Should I outlive this anguish”

When you read a poem that contains three quatrains and a couplet, combined with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg, you are reading

• an epic poem

• a sonnet

• an heroic couplet

• a lyric poem

In which of these lines do you find an example of juxtaposition?

• “wholly to be a fool”

• “my blood approves”

• “but I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree”

• “the best gesture of my brain is less than/your eyelids’ flutter”

Read these lines from “Reapers” and determine what the rhyme scheme of the stanza is.

“Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones In their hip pockets as a thing that’s done, And start their silent swinging one by one.”

• abba

• aabb

• abab

• aaab

The structure of a poem is

• the organization of images, ideas, words, and lines.

• the presentation of the theme.

• a means of presenting dialogue in a narrative poem.

• the use of images and sound devices to create an effect.

You are reading a poem that has no fixed pattern of rhyme, meter, line length, or stanza arrangement. The poem is an example of

• blank verse.

• an Italian sonnet.

• free verse.

• a ballad.

(After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes)

The rhyme scheme of the first and third stanzas is

• aabb

• abab

• abca

• abba