Y9 - Contemporary Poetry - Homework 1

Which of the following conventions is NOT a convention of Epic poetry?

• It is usually performed orally, by heart

• It tends to be short

• It's usually written/spoken in the third person

• It is narrative in that it tells a story

Which of the following conventions is NOT a convention of dramatic poetry?

• It is split into scenes

• It is spoken multiple voices.

• It's usually performed on stage

• It expresses a feeling or a mood

Which of the following conventions ARE conventions of Lyric poetry? (Select all which apply).

• Usually performed on stage

• Poems tend to be shorter than epic or dramatic poems

• They tend to be really long poems which tell a story

• Spoken by one voice, usually in the first person, referred to as the "speaker".

• Tends to express more personal thoughts and feelings

What is the simple unit of language into which poems are divided called?

• A stanza

• A refrain

• Anaphora

• A line

What is a stanza?

• A paragraph in a short story

• A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

Which word is used to describe the overarching structure or a pattern of a poem?

• form

• style

• rhyme scheme

• lyric poem

what does 'the speaker of the poem' mean?

• We refer to the first-person voice in a poem as the "speaker".

• It means that the poem is written as a conversation.

• This is the same as saying the poet.

• The person who write the peom.

What is a refrain?

• Repetition at the start of a line.

• A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.

• A type of poem based on feelings.

• A repeated line in a poem.

Which lines of poetry below show anaphora? (Pick all that are correct).

• For this that all that blood was shed, / For Edward Fitzgerald died,

• put your ear yo the river you hear trees/ put your ear to the trees you hear the widening

• That time of year thou mayst in be behold, / when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang

• Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, / And was in a river and shine in the Sun.

• We would have drunk flat beer and cream soda/ and sweated on plastic chairs at the Naz Café. / We would have looked down over the dusty trees

Who wrote the poem "Hiraeth, Old Bombay"?

• Lorraine Hansbury

• Langston Hughes

• Imtiaz Dharker

• William Shakespeare