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Knowledge Check: Caesuras, Enjambment, & Endstops

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
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1.

When a sentence in a poem flows on to the next line in a poem it is called...

a)

Enjambment

b)

Stanza

c)

Line

d)

Caesura

2.

What is a natural pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry?

a)

caesura

b)

kenning

c)

alliteration

d)

imagery

3.

This dramatic/poetic technique creates unnatural stops within a line. It reads like a hiccup.

a)

end-stop

b)

caesura

c)

enjambment

d)

apostrophe

4.

This poetic/dramatic technique indicates haste and speed on the part of the speaker. It is like a run-on sentence where thoughts continue from one line to the next.

a)

end-stop

b)

enjambment

c)

caesura

d)

metaphor

5.

When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.

e.g. Before the sunrise

a chain of red clouds rise

and all else is in the darkness.

a)

symbolism

b)

metaphor

c)

enjambment

6.

The red punctuation marks in the lines below are examples of ____.

Roses, roses! Two bucks a bunch! They say

The boys in the street, ready to sell you.

a)

Caesura

b)

Metaphor

c)

Personification

d)

Enjambment

7.

The red punctuation marks in the lines below are examples of ___ and ___.

I’m nobody! Who are you?

Are you nobody, too?

Then there’s a pair of us – don’t tell!

They’d banish – you know!

a)

caesura & end-stop

b)

enjambment & metaphor

c)

end-stop & enjambment

8.

The following lines of poetry are an example of _____.

“April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirring

Dull roots with spring rain."

a)

caesura

b)

enjambment

9.

The following lines of poetry are an example of _____.

Rolling through the field in the

dead

of winter

a)

Enjambment

b)

Alliteration

c)

Personification

10.

Which of the following pairs of lines from Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” contains an example of enjambment?

a)

We keep the wall between us as we go.

To each the boulders that have fallen to each.

b)

We have to use a spell to make them balance:

“Stay where you are until our backs are turned!”

c)

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know

What I was walling in or walling out,