Poets

1.  The following lines are an example of what sound device?  "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing / Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."  from "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe 

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Imagery
• Repetition

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2. "Because I could not stop for Death-- / He kindly stopped for me."  What figure of speech does Emily Dickinson, the poet, use in the aforementioned lines?

• Understatement
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

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We read and studied poems from all authors except ...

• Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Dylan Thomas

• Ben Jonson

• William Shakesepare

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The following lines are an example of what figure of speech?  "I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you / Till China and Africa meet, / And the river jumps over the mountain / And the salmon sing in the street." from W. H. Auden's "As I Walked Out One Evening"  

• Aphorism
• Allusion
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole

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Poetry that does not follow a specific form nor a consistent rhythmic structure or pattern is known as ______ poetry.

• good
• free verse
• closed verse
• rhyming poetry

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Essentially a reference to something else, this literary device intentionally relies on the reader's understanding of history and/or literature.  

• Personification
• Irony
• Idiom
• Allusion

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A word that sounds like what it means

• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Consonance
• Verse

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Poetry, from the Greek word  ποιητής, transliterated "poietes," means ...  

• I create.
• writing is beautiful. 
• in poetry lies the answers.
• language will set you free. 

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Figurative language is the use of figures of speech, such as _______, ______, and _______ to go beyond the literal meaning of words, thereby giving readers new insights.  

• denotation, connotation, sensory language
• metaphors, similes, personification
• rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, and iambic pentameter
• lines, stanzas, verses

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An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning 

• Symbol
• Allusion
• Theme
• Enjambment

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