Tutorial 4 - Poetry in the Age of Reason

How is the American colonies personified in the poem, "To Excellency General Washington?"

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10 syllables of a stressed-unstressed rhythm pattern

• assonance

• iambic pentameter

• consonance

• meter

Two lines of poetry that rhyme and express a complete thought

• rhyme scheme

• iambic pentameter

• heroic couplet

• meter

What is assonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

What poetry term is being used in this sentence: A blue, new moon rose high in the sky, casting a subdued hue over the school.

• consonance

• assonance

• imagery

• creepy

What poetry term is being used in this sentence: "Both thieves breathed their last."

• consonance

• alliteration

• assonance

• couplet

What poetry terms is being used in this sentence: Great, gregarious Gary from Gryffindor likes grapes.

• onomatopoeia

• consonance

• assonance

• alliteration

What style were the revolutionary poets trying to imitate?

• Old English

• Roman and Greek

• Modernist

Which four excerpts from the poem "A Political Reverie" by Mercy Otis Warren imply that America was an oppressed and exploited nation?

• Nor orphan's spoils become the minion's prey;

• Nor injur'd cities weep their slaughter'd sons;

• And standing troops, the bane of every state,

  Forever spurn'd, shall be remov'd as far

• And stretch their empire o'er the wide domain.

  On a broad base the commonwealth shall stand

• Nor petty pretors plunder here for kings