Poetry Term Practice HW

An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

• Allusion

• Illusion

• Delusion

• Conclusion

Answer explanation

The question asks for a term that refers to an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work. The correct answer is 'Allusion'. An allusion is a figure of speech that references a person, place, thing, or event in the world, often in passing, without explicit identification.

Which of the following best describes the point of view the following poem is written in?

Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• 4th person

What literary device highlights the "s" sound (s, s, se, st) in line 1 of this example from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven: “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before”?

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

the repetition of vowel sounds. Hear the mellow wedding bells. -"Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe

• assonance

• alliteration

• consonance

• onomatopoeia

What satirical technique is being employed in this satire about the future?

• Exaggeration

• Irony

• Parody

• Understatement

He has no enemies but is bitterly disliked by his friends.

• IRONY

• SARCASM

• HYPERBOLE

• METAPHOR

What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
 If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABBA

• AAAA

What's an example of verbal irony?

• Chanting, "You're an awesome athlete!" to an Olympian

• Saying, "Good job!" to someone who just rear ended a car

• When the sun is shining and the birds are singing, you say, "Nice weather we're having, right?"

• All of the above

What is the open form of poetry that does not require consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or a specific line length?

• Free Verse Poem

• Haiku

• Sonnet

• Limerick

Answer explanation

The question asks about a type of poetry that doesn't require consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or a specific line length. The correct answer is 'Free Verse Poem'. This is because free verse is an open form of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any particular line length, unlike sonnets, lyric poems, or narrative poems.

The act of talking while or as if alone, the character’s inner thoughts. Provides a reader with information not given to other characters.

• monologue

• dialogue

• soliloquy

• narrative