Imagist Poetry Review: Key Characteristics of Imagist Style

Free verse is a type of poetry that does not make use of

• Any element of form

• Repetition of sounds or rhyme scheme

• A specific meter or pattern of rhyme

• traditional stanzas or punctuation

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Imagism was apart of which larger movement?

• Victorian Literature

• Post-Modernism

• The Harlem Renaissance

• Modernism

• Romanticism

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Imagism was inspired by which of the following

• Ancient Greek Poetry

• Russian Realism

• Japanese Haiku

• The English Sonnet

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Which is not a quality of imagism?

• free verse

• common language

• vivid imagery

• decorative language

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Who was Ezra Pound

• a famous Imagist poet

• an opponent of Imagism

• A famous imagist scholar

• The inventor of free verse

• Someone Mr. Kyle made up to trick you.

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Ezra Pound that good poetry

• should be similar to prose (normal writing) but chopped into lines.

• avoided extra, decorative language

• should be abstract

• include clear rhyme and meter

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Who wrote the red wheelbarrow?

• William Carlos Williams

• Ezra Pound

• H. D.

• Petrarch

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