ACL POETRY QUIZ

'I dropped my phone and cracked the screen today' is an example of

• trochaic pentameter

• iambic tetrameter

• iambic pentameter

• a silly accident

Answer explanation

Iambic pentameter-daDUMdDUMdaDUMdaDUMdaDUM imitates heartbeat and therefore human language and expression.

Mariana, La Belle Dame sans Merci and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are all

• Ballads about women

• Sonnets about love

• Cautionary tales

• Romantic ballads

Answer explanation

Ballads are popular, memorable, destined to be sung/told, and often tell cautionary tales. The Romantic poets revisited this form, occasionally disrupting rhythms and rhyme schemes and reminding us of danger or of past , distant times.

A heroic couplet is

• two superheros in love

• a trochaic pentameter

• two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter

• a consonant epiphora

Answer explanation

Often Shakespeare has his characters speak these at the end of a scene or act. Both Brabantio and Iago use thses in Act 1

Free verse is

• poetry free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not necessarily rhyme

• like an ode

• used by Coleridge and Tennyson

• 'like playing tennis with the net down' Robert Frost

Tells the story of a hero , written in a long, narrative, with a serious elevated tone

• ode

• elegy

• epic

• epithalamion

Click and clack are both

• masculine and pararhyme CvC

• masculine and full rhymes CVC

• masculine and assonant rhymes cVc

• triple rhymes

Many slanting/imperfect rhymes can give a haunting sense of search, disjunction; while a final couplet might have a terse, clinching feeling, an effect of _______. Feminine rhymes can be more graceful, flowing, contrasting with a ____ masculine rhyme at the end.

A poem of the Greek tradition which praises/glorifies something or someone

• Sonnet

• Ode

• Epigram

• Elegy

Answer explanation

Elegy serious poem of lament (often for dead)

Epigram is a short, witty telegram like poem

Which is the most important word in all your ACL texts?

A moment in a story where time becomes palpable, space and time converge

• temporal gap

• chronotope

• climax

• chronology