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WorksheetsPoetry Test Review
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Anaphora
a metrical foot containing one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
a list (nouns, adjectives, etc.) within a poem to create an affect
a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole
What is an example of synecdoche?
“If you don’t drive properly, you will lose your wheels.”
"I was going at the speed of light."
"Laws come from Washington D.C."
when everything just connects in life :)
a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem
Metaphor
Caesura
Refrain
Polysyndeton
poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme
blank verse
iambic pentameter
informal verse
free verse
The sun being compared to a "busy old fool" in Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is an example of:
simile
conceit
dead metaphor
analogy
The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse; it contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables
meter
foot
anapest
enjambment
Who wrote "When my love swears she is made of truth"?
Shakespeare
Petrarch
W.H. Auden
Karl Shapiro
Which poem is by William Butler Yeats?
To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph
To a Friend Whose Work has come to Nothing
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Musee des Beaux Arts
What poem is this? "the squeal and the blare and the / tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles / tipping their bellies"
The Bells
The Dance
A Noiseless Patient Spider
God's Will
What poem is this? "Landscape plotted and pieced-- fold, fallow, and plow; /
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim."
The Flea
The Eagle
The Windhover
Pied Beauty
What type of rhyme is this? "Within myself to seek my only HIRE, / Desiring naught bot how to kill DESIRE"
internal
feminine
masculine
slant
Who wrote "The Bells"?
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Edgar Allan Poe
Andrew Marvell
Shakespeare
Which of these definitions best fits the form poem ELEGY?
poem about the dawn/parting of lovers
poem expressing sorrow + lamentation, especially for one who is dead
poem recounting tragic, comic, or heroic stories (usually abcb rhyme)
poem meant to instruct or inform; teaches the audience directly
Draw a line indicating the volta in Auto Wreck
What is the definition of "pestilience" from Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"?
one who troubles or annoys others
a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague
an infestation
when many garden pests overtake a crop
