7th Grade November 8 ENG Review

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

the simple and most direct meaning of the words

• Figurative language

• Literal meaning

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

something other than the ordinary meaning. It often expresses an idea by connecting one thing to another.

• Figurative language

• Literal meaning

Answer explanation

Writers use figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, or personification to express figurative meaning., 

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

True or false: While prose is arranged in sentences and paragraphs, a poem is arranged in lines and stanzas.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The length of these lines and the number of lines in each stanza define the structure of a poem.

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

True or false: Rhyme can help create a musical quality in a poem.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The length of these lines and the number of lines in each stanza define the structure of a poem.

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

the rhythmic pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables in a line.

• rhyme

• rhyme scheme

• meter

Answer explanation

For example, take a look at this line from Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice":

Some say the world will end in fire

Notice how the line has alternating unstressed and stressed syllables. One unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called an iamb. This line is an example of iambic meter.

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

refers to the use of objects or words that hold meaning beyond that of their literal meaning.

• imagery

• symbolism

• meter

• theme

Discovering Meaning in Poetry:

the use of descriptive words to stimulate any of the five
senses in the reader

• imagery

• symbolism

• meter

• theme

Hearing Sound in Poetry

Read the excerpt from the poem “Easter, 1916” by William Butler Yeats. What is the foot pattern?

Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey

• anapest (two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable)

• iamb (an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable)

• trochee (a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable)

• dactyl (a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables)

Hearing Sound in Poetry:

Read the excerpt from “The Divine Image” by William Blake. Which meter is used in the third line?

For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is God, our father dear,
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
Is Man, his child and care.

• iambic trimeter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats three times in the line.)

• trochaic dimeter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats two times in the line.)

• trochaic trimeter (The foot has a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. This pattern repeats three times in the line.)

• iambic tetrameter (The foot has an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. This pattern repeats four times in the line.)

Hearing Sound in Poetry:

Which type of sound device appears in the excerpt from “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood.
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

• alliteration

• slant rhyme

• consonance

• end rhyme

Answer explanation

End rhyme occurs when the last word of one line forms a perfect rhyme with the last word of another line. Look at the following example from Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”:

Nature's first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold.

Notice how the last word in the first line gold and the last word in the second line hold rhyme with each other. The vowel sound in both words creates a perfect rhyme.