Unit 2 Notes: Introduction to Poetry & Basic Techniques

A student is analyzing a poem to explore resilience. Which approach most effectively uses evidence to show how the poem conveys resilience?

• Summarize the poet’s biography and assume the poem is resilient.

• Identify lines and stanzas that show adapting, coping, or bouncing back from adversity, and explain how sound devices or imagery reinforce that idea.

• State that all poems are about resilience by definition.

• Focus only on punctuation marks without referencing the poem’s ideas.

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Which statement best distinguishes the poet from the speaker in a poem?

• The poet is the person who wrote the poem, while the speaker is the voice driving the poem and may or may not be the poet.

• The poet and the speaker are always the same person.

• The speaker writes the poem and the poet reads it aloud.

• The poet is the narrator of a novel, while the speaker is only used in songs.

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What is the most accurate definition of poetry according to the notes?

• Prose that avoids rhythm and sound.

• An art form of creative and artistic writing that uses carefully chosen words, sound, and rhythm to evoke emotions and ideas, differing from prose by arranging words into lines and stanzas and often incorporating elements like rhyme, meter, and vivid imagery.

• A list of facts organized into paragraphs.

• Song lyrics that always rhyme and have a strict meter.

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Which pairing correctly matches the poetic term with its definition?

• Line—purposefully designated group of lines; Stanza—row of words

• Line—row of words with or without punctuation; Stanza—purposefully designated group of lines based on thought or form

• Poet—voice driving the poem; Speaker—person who wrote the poem

• Sound devices—visual techniques that create imagery only

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A rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry is called what?

• Internal rhyme

• Slant rhyme

• True rhyme

• End rhyme

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Which example best illustrates a TRUE RHYME as defined in poetry sound devices?

• lake, like

• make, bake

• move, love

• rough, cough

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Given the lines labeled with letters to mark repeating end sounds, what is the term for the pattern that uses alphabet letters (a, b, c, etc.) to identify repeated rhymes across lines?

• Meter

• Rhyme scheme

• Alliteration

• Assonance

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Which description matches SLANT RHYME?

• Words that share identical vowel and consonant sounds

• Rhyme based on imperfect or incomplete correspondence of end syllable sounds

• Rhyme between two or more words within one line

• Rhyme that repeats an initial consonant sound

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Choose the option that best demonstrates ALLITERATION as presented in the material.

• He likes it ’cause it’s cold in there.

• His big hairy paws in the buttery dish.

• I do not like them in a boat.

• Boom crash crunch crunch.

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Which device uses words that imitate natural sounds, such as in a poem describing waves and crunching sand?

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

• Cacophony

• Rhyme scheme

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