Q4 Poetry - Final Lesson Review Quiz

What is personification?

• the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

Which of the following are examples of simile?

• His heart was as cold as ice

• White as a sheet

• Dance like no one is watching

• The alligator's teeth are white daggers.

What is hyperbole?

• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

• visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

Which of the following sentences contain clear examples of rhyme?

• Tyger, tiger burning bright, In the forest of the night.

• Off in the distance, a cowbell sounds, and an old tomcat sits and frowns.

• Hark! The herald angels sing, Glory to the newborn king.

• I am standing just inside the doorway, watching Mami talk to the television screen

What is alliteration?

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

• The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid (e.g. as brave as a lion ).

Which of the following sentences contain examples of alliteration?

• It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master,

• Soon the sun’s warmth makes them shed crystal shells.

• Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.

• We would sit down, and think which way to walk

What is free verse?

• The beat and pace of a poem. It is created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse.

• Poems that have no regular meter or rhythm. They do not follow a proper rhyme scheme; these poems do not have any set rules.

Which of the following examples contain free verse poetry?

• Zig-zagging down the road, Trying not to stray over the center line, Or hit a curb, Or break an axle, Or flatten a tire

• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.

• “Barely tolerated, living on the margin In our technological society, we were always having to be rescued

• And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.

Is the language in the poem easy or difficult? Explain your answer using evidence from the poem.

Poem: The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

In your answer to this question please:

a) Please write TWO synonyms of the word 'beguile' (go to https://www.thesaurus.com/ for help with this)

b) Please write the dictionary definition of the word 'beguile'