WorksheetsACL POETRY QUIZ
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 28mins
'I dropped my phone and cracked the screen today' is an example of
trochaic pentameter
iambic tetrameter
iambic pentameter
a silly accident
Mariana, La Belle Dame sans Merci and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are all
Ballads about women
Sonnets about love
Cautionary tales
Romantic ballads
A heroic couplet is
two superheros in love
a trochaic pentameter
two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter
a consonant epiphora
Free verse is
poetry free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not necessarily rhyme
like an ode
used by Coleridge and Tennyson
'like playing tennis with the net down' Robert Frost
Tells the story of a hero , written in a long, narrative, with a serious elevated tone
ode
elegy
epic
epithalamion
Click and clack are both
masculine and pararhyme CvC
masculine and full rhymes CVC
masculine and assonant rhymes cVc
triple rhymes
Many slanting/imperfect rhymes can give a haunting sense of search, disjunction; while a final couplet might have a terse, clinching feeling, an effect of _______. Feminine rhymes can be more graceful, flowing, contrasting with a ____ masculine rhyme at the end.
(a)
A poem of the Greek tradition which praises/glorifies something or someone
Sonnet
Ode
Epigram
Elegy
Which is the most important word in all your ACL texts?
A moment in a story where time becomes palpable, space and time converge
temporal gap
chronotope
climax
chronology
(when everything else was blue) is an example of a p__________
'Do or do not. There is no try. ' Yoda from Star Wars is an example of
pun
pathetic fallacy
grotesque
inversion
John went to the stupid concert and was bored out of his mind is
indirect speech
free indirect
direct speech
a story of a spoilt child.
Author and critic John Ruskin coined this term to make the environment reflect the inner experience of a narrator or other characters. "emotional falseness." Ruskin originally used the term to criticise what he saw as the sentimental attitude of 18th century Romantic poets toward nature
chronotope
personification
conceit/extended metaphor
Pathetic fallacy
A figure of speech in which a modifier (usually an adjective) qualifies a noun other than the person or thing it is actually describing. In other words, the modifier or epithet is transferred from the noun it is meant to describe to another noun in the sentence. eg: O Happy Day; a weary road
transfered epithet
transfered account
symbolism
conceit
Paragraph is to prose as ____ is to poetry
Verse
Line
Stanza
Sentence
A narrative poem is...
a sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme.
any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings.
a non-dramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short.
normally a fourteen-line iambic pentameter poem.
____ is unrhymed iambic pentameter.
couplet
blank verse
ballad meter
enjambment
Free verse is...
two end-stopped iambic pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc with the thought usually completed in the two-line unit.
the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line of poetry to the next.
the repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry.
poetry which is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical.
Each unit of meter is known as a/n...
ear
arm
toe
foot
____ is a group of syllables in verse usually consisting of one accented syllable and one or two unaccented syllables associated with it.
Poetic foot
Meter
Rhyme
Rhythm
____ is a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.
Allusion
Illusion
Antithesis
Anaphora
___ is a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in: Man proposes; God disposes. ____ is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness.
conceit
antithesis
apostrophe
caesura
Parallelism is...
a similar grammatical structure within a line or lines of poetry.
a form of metaphor which in mentioning a part signifies the whole.
a situation or action or feeling that appears to be contradictory but on inspection turns out to be true or at least to make sense.
a figure of speech which is characterized by the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself
Rhyme is...
the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions in two or more lines of verse.
a style in which combinations of words pleasant to the ear predominate.
the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words.
Which statement is not true
Synecdoche refers to a thing by the name of one of its parts while metonymy refers to a thing by something else closely connected to it.
synechdoche-'wheels' for a car / ''a pair of hands 'for helpers
the earth is not round
metonymy
crown for power, royalty/ '10 Downing st' for govt
When a speaker expresses thoughts aloud, honestly, with no intended audience
a monologue
a dialogue
a soliloquy
a nightmare
the thunder, AND the storm, AND the cloud that took the form is a______sentence
paratactic
hypotactic
periodic
silly
A quatrain has ____ lines.
2
4
6
8
A (a) is a character who resembles another in some way, but may react/behave very differently. Examples?
horse and worse are (a) rhymes
She was not a pretty woman, my sister is an
insult
understatement
epigraph
epistle
A Room with a View begins
(a)
Was this really Italy? is written without any quotation marks, but Lucy's thoughts. This is called. __________ __________ speech
(a)
'Prato! They must go to Prato. That place is too sweetly squalid for words. (Miss Lavish) Name 3 devices used here:
imperative
exclamation
oxymoron
understatement
The clever lady (Miss Lavish) is an
insult
epithet
euphemism
The Pension Bertolini had decided is an example of
irony
metonymy
simile
'the tightly stuffed armchair, which had the colour and the contours of a tomato' is an example of
(a)
Draw the content of the note that Charlotte finds in George's room
'Generally at a pension people looked them over for a day or two before speaking, and often did not find out that they would 'do' until they had gone.' is an example of a
(a)
