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WorksheetsChapters 26 and 27 Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
"In the boom of the tingling strings / of a mother who smiles as she sings."
What sound device does the word in red illustrate?
What sound device does the word in red illustrate?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
alliteration
c)
assonance
d)
rhyme
2.
"And I begged the little leaves to lean / Low and together for a safe screen"
The "l" and "s" sounds illustrate what sound device?
The "l" and "s" sounds illustrate what sound device?
a)
onomatopoeia
b)
alliteration
c)
assonance
d)
cacophony
3.
"Big-voiced lassies made their banjos bang"
This example illustrates which TWO sound devices?
This example illustrates which TWO sound devices?
a)
alliteration and onomatopoeia
b)
euphony and rhyme
c)
eye rhyme and assonance
d)
consonance and approximate rhyme
4.
"Dividing and gliding and sliding"
This line illustrates an example of which of the following TWO sound devices?
This line illustrates an example of which of the following TWO sound devices?
a)
end rhyme and assonance
b)
internal rhyme and feminine rhyme
c)
alliteration and onomatopoeia
d)
masculine rhyme and internal rhyme
5.
"never my numb plunker fumbles"
This line of poetry contains what type of sound device?
This line of poetry contains what type of sound device?
a)
euphony
b)
end rhyme
c)
cacophony
d)
masculine rhyme
6.
What type of poetry emulates song?
a)
ode
b)
sonnet
c)
narrative poem
d)
ballad
7.
What is the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan/Italian sonnet?
a)
abbaabbacdcdcd
b)
ababcdcdefefgg
c)
abbaabbacdcdee
d)
ababcdcdefgefg
8.
What is the meter?
"My heart leaps up when I behold"
"My heart leaps up when I behold"
a)
iambic pentameter
b)
trochaic tetrameter
c)
trochaic pentameter
d)
iambic tetrameter
9.
What foot has two stressed syllables?
a)
pyrrhic
b)
iambic
c)
anapest
d)
spondee
10.
What is a line that ends with an extra unstressed syllable called?
a)
masculine ending
b)
feminine ending
c)
blank verse
d)
rising meter
11.
What is the recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables?
a)
meter
b)
foot
c)
prosody
d)
rhythm
12.
When a rhythmical pattern of stresses recurs in a poem, the result is ____.
a)
prosody
b)
meter
c)
rhythm
d)
scansion
13.
All the metrical elements of a poem make up what is called a poem's _____.
a)
prosody
b)
line
c)
rhythm
d)
meter
14.
_____ consists of measuring the stresses in a line to determine its metrical pattern.
a)
scansion
b)
feet
c)
stresses
d)
meter
15.
The _____ is the metrical unit by which a line of poetry is measured.
a)
iamb
b)
foot
c)
line
d)
couplet
16.
What would the scansion of an iambic foot look like?
a)
U /
b)
/ U
c)
/ /
d)
U U /
17.
What is the total number of feet in the following line?
"Come live with me and be my love"
"Come live with me and be my love"
a)
tetrameter
b)
pentameter
c)
hexameter
d)
octameter (optional)
18.
"the green corn hath rotted ere his youth attain’d a beard"
What does the word in red illustrate?
What does the word in red illustrate?
a)
caesura
b)
elision
c)
feminine ending
d)
enjambment
19.
What would the scansion of the following line look like?
"What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze"
"What kept his eyes from giving back the gaze"
a)
U/U/U/U/U/
b)
/U/U/U/U/U
c)
UU/UU/UU/U
d)
/UU/UU/UU/
20.
Which of the following lines is an example of trochaic trimeter?
a)
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
b)
That from Heaven, or near it
c)
The joyous traveller said,
d)
The steed has passed me now
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