Test Quiz for MasterClass

What is the difference between poetry and prose?

Please draw the simile in the following lines of poetry by Wordsworth: "I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills."

Please recite the following lines of poetry. In your recitation, please be sure to read according to the punctuation, show the appropriate emotions, use the appropriate body language, and use the appropriate voice and diction.

Emily Dickinson, "A Bird Came Down the Walk":

• "He stirred his velvet head / Like one in danger; cautious, / I offered him a crumb, / And he unrolled his feathers / And rowed him softer home / Than oars divide the ocean, / Too silver for a seam, / Or butterflies, off banks of noon, / Leap, plashless as they swim."

Please record a 1-2 minute analysis of the use of figurative language in the following:

William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18:

• "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate."

• Be sure to provide clear examples from the poem and to connect the figurative language to the major theme of the poem.

What emotions does the following poem elicit from you the reader?

Alfred Lord Tennyson, "The Eagle":

• "He clasps the crag with crooked hands; / Close to the sun in lonely lands, / Ringed with the azure world, he stands. / The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; / He watches from his mountain walls, / And like a thunderbolt he falls."

• Please use one word only.

Is Sylvia Plath's poem "Lady Lazarus" an effective representation of 20th-century feminism?

• Yes

• No

• Yes with some qualifications

• Not sure

What are the metaphors in this poem?

What are the uses of figurative language in stanza 1?

a

b

c

Repetition

Imagery

Metonomy

Setting

Synechdoche

Match the following

• Simile

• "O Death, where is thy sting?"

• Apostrophe

• "He fought like a lion in battle."

• Metonomy

• "The wind whispered through the trees."

• Metaphor

• "The world is a stage."

• Personification

• "The pen is mightier than the sword."