2023 11B U5 CP#9

What is the term for the voice in a poem?

• character

• consonance

• speaker

• stanza

Answer explanation

In stories, the term is narrator, in poems, it's speaker.

How do poets use stanzas in poetry?

• to separate units of rhythm and rhyme

• to express the point of view of a speaker

• to change the speaker of a poem

• to separate poetic devices

Answer explanation

If a question on a quiz or test is worth 3 points, how many correct answer choices will there be?

• one

• two

• three

• none of the above

What figure of speech is an indirect reference to a person, place, or event in the past?

• paradox

• allegory

• analogy

• allusion

Answer explanation

Get the Cinderella reference?

What figure of speech is a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification?

• allusion

• analogy

• paradox

• allegory

Answer explanation

Read the passage.

Every time Jim sent one pile of dishes through the dishwasher, he turned to find that the sink was full yet again. He was like Sisyphus, if his boulder had been crusted-over bowls of clam chowder.

Which figures of speech does the passage use?

• allegory and analogy

• paradox and allusion

• allusion and analogy

• allusion and allegory

Answer explanation

In Greek mythology, Hades punished Sisyphus for cheating death by forcing him to roll a giant boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down again, for all eternity. Kind of like having to do the dishes over and over again...

Read the passage from “The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

    “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,     Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—     On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there—is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”             Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

Which is the biblical allusion in this passage?

• On this home by Horror haunted

• Is there--is there a balm in Gilead?

• Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed...

• ...on this desert land enchanted

Answer explanation

The 'Balm in Gilead' refers a passage in the Old Testament about a spiritual medicine to heal the soul.

A ________person speaker uses the pronouns 'I, me, my, we, our, and us.'

Answer explanation

A _______ person speaker uses the pronouns 'he, she, it.'

Answer explanation

What pronouns does a second-person speaker use?

• I, me, my

• he, she, it

• you, yours, yourself

• we, our, us

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