English 11 ANSWER SHEET for
POETIC TERMINOLOGY TESTName:
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Part One: General Questions (15 marks)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Part Two: A sight poem by John Milton (10 marks)
16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
21. 22. 23. 24. 25.
Part Three: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats (2 marks) 26. 27.
Part Four: "Crossing the Bar" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (9 marks)
28. 29. 30. 31. 32.
33. 34. 35. 36.
Parts Five and Six (4 marks)37. 38. 39. 40.
Part Seven: Matching based on poetic forms (10 marks)
41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
46. 47. 48. 49. 50.
English 11 Poetic Terminology Test. Do NOT write on this booklet.
Use the Answer Sheet provided.
Select the letter that represents the BEST answer in each instance.
Part One: General Questions
1. First Witch: When shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Second Witch:When the hurlyburly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
(Macbeth, I, i, 1-4)
In these lines the meter is Trochaic (/u)
A. Trimeter.
B. Tetrameter.
C. Hexameter.
D. Pentameter.
2. All: Show his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows, so depart!
(Macbeth, IV, i, 110-111)
These lines provide a good example of
A. ballad stanza.
B. internal rhyme.
C. rhyming couplet.
D. alternating rhyme.
3.Macbeth:Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!
Thy crown does sear mine eyelids. (Macbeth, IV, i, 112-113)
The chief device present in these lines is
A. metaphor.
B. metonymy.
C. alliteration.
D. personification.
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10. My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow. . . .
(Andrew Marvel, "To His Coy Mistress")
In these lines the poet uses two devices in conjunction, namely
A. hyperbole and metaphor.
B. free verse and personification.
C. oxymoron and onomatapoeia.
D. parallelism and effective repetition.
11. "The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green:*Note: Unleash the
Uncouple here*, and let us make a bay* . . ."hounds and
(William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, II, ii, 2-3).let them cry.
These lines would best be described as
A. a couplet.
B. free verse.
C. blank verse.
D. apostrophe.
12."Sitting on my own, not by myself;
Everybody's here with me:
I don't need to touch your face to know. . . ." (from "Sitting" by Cat Stevens)
In these lines Cat Stevens employs several examples of
A. paradox.
B. oxymoron.
C. alliteration.
D. personification.
13."Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything, of nothing first created!" (Romeo and Juliet, I, i, 179-180)
The principal device in illustrated in these lines is
A. oxymoron.
B. synecdoche.
C. metonymy.
D. alliteration.
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14.All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts.
(from As You Like It)
According to the imagery of these lines, the next line should be
A. "His acts being seven ages."
B. "His autobiography being seven stanzas."
C. "His novel being described in seven lengthy chapters."
D. "His moral development encompassing seven distinct stages."
15. She only left of all the harmless train,
The sad historian of the pensive plain."
(Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village," 135-6)
These lines involve two literary devices working together:
A. paradox and alliteration.
B. free verse and apostrophe.
C. parallelism and oxymoron.
D. transferred epithet and personification.
Part Two: A sight poem by John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent,1
Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one Talent which is death to hide,
Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent4
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide;
"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied,"
I fondly ask; But patience to prevent8
That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best; his State
Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed12
And post o'er Land and Ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
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16. An appropriate title for this selection would be
A. On his blindness.
B. On his conscience.
C. The parable of the Talent.
D. How can I meet my Maker?
17. This poem should be classified as
A. a narrative.
B. an epic invocation.
C. a Petrarchan sonnet.
D. a Shakespearean sonnet.
18. The rhyme scheme of this poem is best stated as
A. abba.
B. abca.
C. abcabcdeffeeffe.
D. abbaabbacdecde.
19. Lines 8 through 9 provide a good example of
A. simile,
B. metonymy.
C. personfication.
D. effective repetition.
20. The meter of the poem is
A. Iambic Pentameter.
B. Trochaic Tetrameter.
C. Dactyllic Hexameter.
D. Anapestic Trimeter.
21. The commas in lines 2 and 4 (between "days" and "in," and between "useless" and "though") indicate
A. caesuras.
B. assonance.
C. subordination.
D. stanza divisions.
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22. The technique used in the last three lines of the poem is
A. contrast.
B. oxymoron.
C. metonymy.
D. consonance.
23. According to the opening lines of the poem,
A. the poet went blind before the age of forty.
B. the poet lost the use of his hands before age thirty-five.
C. the slothful servan in Christ's "Parable of the Talents" was killed.
D. the human soul must express its love for God through physical labour.
24. The "volta" or "turning point" in the poem's argument occurs in line
A. five.
B. six.
C. seven.
D. eight.
25. The one who asks the questions in the poem is
A. God.
B. the poet's conscience.
C. the "mild yoke" of the poet.
D. one of the thousands who "post."