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Poetry Unit
Honors World Lit
Tousignaut
ATA
April 24, 2014
Matching Poetry Terms (Questions 1-10)
a. Consonance e. Onomatopoeiaae. Personificationabc. Tanka
b. Alliterationab. Similebc. Toneabd. Limerick
c.Fixed poetryac. Speakerbd. Universal themeabe. Answer not given
d. Free versead. Metaphorbe. Epitaph
- poetry not written in regular rhythmical pattern or meter
- the attitude of the speaker/author
- Humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines form a couplet
- the use of words in which the sounds seem to resemble the sounds they describe
- the repetition of beginning consonant sounds
- A brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person
- a message about life that can be understood by most cultures
- the imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem
- a kind of metaphor that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects
- a repetition of end sounds with different vowel sounds (brick/block).
- a type of poetry in which it is dictated how many lines should be included
- a comparison of two different things using like or as
- A Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllablesin 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others
Multiple Choice Questions using terms from Class
- The following is an example of what figurative language?
And the sound of iron on stone,
And how the silence surged softly backward.
a: alliterationb. metaphorc. symbold. theme - The following is an example of what figurative language?
The daffodils are tossing their heads in sprightly dance…
a. symbolb personificationc. similed. alliteration - The following is an example of what figurative language?
Jim Smiley would follow a bug as far as Mexico to win a bet.
a. themeb. alliterationc. metaphord. hyperbole - The following is an example of ______?
“It is raining cats and dogs”
a: figurative languageb. alliterationc. literal languaged. personification - The following is an example of ______?
“The rain was coming down at a rate of 3 inches per hour.”
a: figurative languageb. alliterationc. literal languaged. personification - Which of the following is NOT an example of a sound device?
a. buzzb. she sells sea shellsc. “raining cats and dogs”d. boom! - What type of figurative language is the following example?
Or does it crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet?
a. ironyb. similec. personificationd. metaphor - What type of figurative language is the following example?
For when dreams go, Life is a barren field frozen with snow
a. ironyb. similec. personificationd. metaphor - What type of sound device is used in the following example?
Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows.
Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows.
a. personificationb. rhymec. onomatopoeiad. simile - Which of the following is NOT an example of imagery?
a. beating of the storm wavesb. from the gladdened multitude went up a joyous yell
c. The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are lightd. Mighty Casey has struck out. - A narrator in a book is similar to a ___ in a poem.
a. rhymeb. speakerc. versed. aesthetic - What type of poem allows writers to be open with the format and rhyme scheme?
a. free verseb. sonnetc. haikud. fixed poetry - A poem about Dr. Martin Luter King, Jr might have a/an ___ to his “I Have a Dream” speech.
a. simileb. allusionc. narrative poemd. rhyme scheme - What is the tone of the following lines of poetry?
"You are old," said the youth, "As I mentioned before/And have grown most uncommonly fat;
a. happinessb. ridiculec. spiritedd. lonely
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The Guest House (by Rumi)
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
- This poem compares being human with ____.
a. Emotions b. A guest house
c. The nightd. Honor - The comparison between these two unlike things, developed through the entire poem, is called ____.
a. Simileb. Metaphor
c. Alliterationd. Onomatopoeia - This poem is a ____.
a. Haikub. Cinquain
c. Sonnetd. Free Verse - The second stanza uses a figure of speech called ____.
a. Simileb. Metaphor
c. Exaggerationd. Rhythm - The tone described in this poem is ____.
a. Melancholy about the troubles of life
b. Happy about life
c. Accepting of the various emotions and experiences of life
d. Acceptance of death - The literary device in lines 7-10 is ____.
a. Allusionb. Idiom
c. Similed. Personification - Of the words below, which word is a key word to indicate the mood of this poem?
a. House b. Arrival
c. Welcomed. Beyond
Laura
Petrarch
She used to let her golden hair fly free
For the wind to toy and tangle and molest;
Her eyes were brighter than the radiant west.
(Seldom they shine so now.) I used to see
Pity look out of those deep eyes on me.
(“It was false pity,” you would now protest.)
I had love’s tinder heaped within my breast;
What wonder that the flame burned furiously?
She did not walk in any mortal way,
But with angelic progress; when she spoke,
Unearthly voices sang in unison.
She seemed divine among the dreary folk
Of earth. You say she is not so today?
Well, though the bow’s unbent, the wound bleeds on.
- This poem best described as a ____.
a. Free verseb. Limerick
c. Sonnetd. Haiku - This poem could also be seen as an ode to ____.
a. Laurab. A bird
c. Fired. Angels - The rhyme scheme is ____.
a. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
b. ABBA ABBA CDCDCD
c. ABBA ABBA CC DD EE
d. ABBA ABBA CDE DCE - Lines 1-2 contain an example of ____.
a. End rhyme b. A refrain
c. Imageryd. Onomatopoeia - Lines 8-10 contain an example of ____.
a. Alliterationb. Simile
c. Personificationd. Free verse - The mood of this poem leaves the reader with feelings of
a. Sadnessb. Amusement
c. Loved. Fear of death
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“Everyone Sang” by Siegfried Sassoon
Everyone suddenly burst out singing;
And I was filled with such delight
As prisoned birds must find in freedom,
winging wildly across the white
5Orchards and dark-green fields; on- on- and out of sight.
Everyone’s voice was suddenly lifted;
And beauty came like the setting sun:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
Drifted away… O, but Everyone
10as a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be done
- What simile is used in the first stanza of this poem?
a.Singing to represent happiness
b.Flowers to represent spring
c.Voices to represent a setting sun
d.Freed birds to represent singing - How does this simile change to a metaphor in the second poem?
a.Shifts from flowers representing spring to the flowers being spring and everything it encompasses.
b.Shifts from singing like birds when they are freed to people becoming birds with wordless songs.
c.Shifts from voices being like the sun setting to the voices becoming the sun rise instead.
d.Shifts from voices being like the sun setting to beauty becoming like the sun setting. - Which senses help set the scene and tone of this poem?
a.Sound, sightc.Touch, smell, sound
b.Sight, tasted.Sound, smell, sight - What is the mood of this poem?
a.Encouragingc.Hopeful
b.Depressingd.Sadness - What type of figurative language is used in the following line:
My heart was shaken with tears; and horror
a.Alliteration
b.Consonance
c.Personification
d.Sonnet
Fire and Ice
By Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
- What emotions does the speaker in “Fire and Ice” associate with fire and ice?
a.Love and compassionc.Excitement and happiness
b.Desire and hatredd.Indifference and uneasiness - In his discussion of fire and ice, what does the poet want readers to realize about human nature?
a.Humans are capable of destroying themselves with hatred and desire.
b.Humans are capable of starting fires and causing other disasters.
c.The world will definitely be destroyed by fire and ice.
d.People need to prepare for natural disasters. - In the poem “Fire and Ice,” what is the poet’s purpose in describing the destruction of the earth by fire and ice?
a.destruction can be useful, like fire and ice.
b.hot and cold tempered people can be equally damaging/destructive
c.fire is worse than ice, because it causes melting
d.ice is worse than fire, because it causes freezing - What human failings is he trying to emphasize?
a.Unwise spending both individually and socially
b.the growing concern over global warming
c.our actions toward each other can be as devastating as natural disasters
d.spring and summer are the seasons he likes best - What attitude/feelings does the speaker express toward the world?
a.there is as much danger in desire as there is in hate
b.living in the polar ice cap is better than living around the equator
c.the more things change, the more they stay the same
d.the unexamined life is not worth living
On a separate paper, make a TPFASTT for the following poem:
The Guitar
Frederico Garcia Lorca
Now begins the cry
Of the guitar,
Breaking the vaults
Of dawn.
Now begins the cry
Of the guitar.
Useless
To still it.
Impossible
To still it
It weeps monotonously
As weeps the water,
As weeps the wind
Over snow.
Impossible to still it.
It weeps
For distant things,
Warm southern sands
Desiring white camellias
It mourns the arrow without a target,
The evening without morning,
And the first bird dead
Upon a branch.
O guitar!
A wounded heart,
Wounded by five swords.