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Poetry Test Review

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Anaphora

a)

a metrical foot containing one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

b)

Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row

c)

a list (nouns, adjectives, etc.) within a poem to create an affect

d)

a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole

2.

What is an example of synecdoche?

a)

“If you don’t drive properly, you will lose your wheels.”

b)

"I was going at the speed of light."

c)

"Laws come from Washington D.C."

d)

when everything just connects in life :)

3.

a word, phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated, for effect, several times in a poem

a)

Metaphor

b)

Caesura

c)

Refrain

d)

Polysyndeton

4.

poetry that does not conform to a regular meter or rhyme scheme

a)

blank verse

b)

iambic pentameter

c)

informal verse

d)

free verse

5.

The sun being compared to a "busy old fool" in Donne's poem "The Sunne Rising" is an example of:

a)

simile

b)

conceit

c)

dead metaphor

d)

analogy

6.

The basic unit used in the scansion or measurement of verse; it contains one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables

a)

meter

b)

foot

c)

anapest

d)

enjambment

7.

Who wrote "When my love swears she is made of truth"?

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Petrarch

c)

W.H. Auden

d)

Karl Shapiro

8.

Which poem is by William Butler Yeats?

a)

To a Friend Whose Work has Come to Triumph

b)

To a Friend Whose Work has come to Nothing

c)

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

d)

Musee des Beaux Arts

9.

What poem is this? "the squeal and the blare and the / tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles / tipping their bellies"

a)

The Bells

b)

The Dance

c)

A Noiseless Patient Spider

d)

God's Will

10.

What poem is this? "Landscape plotted and pieced-- fold,  fallow,  and plow; /

And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim."

a)

The Flea

b)

The Eagle

c)

The Windhover

d)

Pied Beauty

11.

What type of rhyme is this? "Within myself to seek my only HIRE, / Desiring naught bot how to kill DESIRE"

a)

internal

b)

feminine

c)

masculine

d)

slant

12.

Who wrote "The Bells"?

a)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Andrew Marvell

d)

Shakespeare

13.

Which of these definitions best fits the form poem ELEGY?

a)

poem about the dawn/parting of lovers

b)

poem expressing sorrow + lamentation, especially for one who is dead

c)

poem recounting tragic, comic, or heroic stories (usually abcb rhyme)

d)

poem meant to instruct or inform; teaches the audience directly

14.

Draw a line indicating the volta in Auto Wreck

15.

What is the definition of "pestilience" from Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"?

a)

one who troubles or annoys others

b)

a fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague

c)

an infestation

d)

when many garden pests overtake a crop