Poetry Study 1 Review

Which figure of speech is used in this text?

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
in the icy air of night!

• Idiom

• Hyperbole

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

Which figure of speech is used in this text?
From the warmth and safety of their beds, the villagers listened to the screaming storm until daybreak. Then there was silence.

• Allusion

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Personification

Which figure of speech is used in this text?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..
- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven"

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Pun

Select the passage that has a more admiring tone.

• Mr. Wickham's appearance was greatly in his favor. He had all the best parts of beauty- a fine presence, a good figure, and a very pleasing manner about him. The introduction was followed on his side by a happy readiness of conversation.

• No mortal could support that horror. A mummy animated once more could not be so hideous as that wretch. I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have dreamed of.

Select the passage that has a more disgusted tone.

• His thin lips were constantly compressed into a rude- it might almost be called a vicious smile. A special feature of his face was its death-like paleness, which gave to the whole man a starved appearance in spite of his hard look.

• She was what is called a fine looking woman for her time of life, and must have been handsome; she was tall, but not thin, and dressed in black velvet, and looked rather pale, but with a proud and commanding expressed, though now agitated.

Select the passage that has a more energetic tone.

• It was a fire! A fire in the meadow grass! Some one had dropped a lighted match, and now little red flames were running through the grass in all directions. The Merry Little Breeze hastened to tell all the other Little Breezes and all rushed over as fast as they could to see for themselves.

• For some time the two men amused themselves with watching the movement of vague forms on the edge of the firelight. By looking closely and steadily at where a pair of eyes burned in the darkness, the form of the animal would slowly take shape. They could even see these forms move at times.

Complete the rhyme scheme.
On his roof the red leaf falls, ​ (a)  

At his door the bluejay calls, ​ (b)  

And he hears the wood-mice hurry​ (c)  

Up and down his rough log walls​ ​ (d)  

• A
• B

Complete the rhyme scheme.
"Excuse the liberty I take,"​ (a)  

Modestus said, with archness on his brow, ​ (b)  

"Pray, why did your father make​ (c)  

A gentleman of you?"​ (d)  

• A
• B
• C

Complete the rhyme scheme.
I had not known before​ (a)  
Forever was so long a word.​ (b)  

The slow stroke of the clock of time​ (c)  

I had not heard.​ (d)  

• A
• B
• C

What is the main, or central idea of the passage?
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland in approximately 1818. After several unsuccessful attempts, Douglass escaped from slavery and eventually settled in Massachusetts. In 1845, he wrote his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which had a profound influence on the movement to abolish slavery. Harriet Jacobs was born in North Carolina in 1813. Like Douglass, Jacobs was born into slavery. She eventually escaped and settled in New York. Also like Douglass, she wrote an autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which revealed the horrors of life under slavery.

• Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs both wrote important autobiographies about their experiences of slavery.

• Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs both escaped from slavery in the 1800s.

• The antislavery movement wouldn't have existed without autobiographies like Frederick Douglass's and Harriet Jacobs's.