Poetry Final Exam 40 multiple choice questions Two

Poetry “Final Exam” 40 multiple choice questions Two written components (writing a poem, annotating a poem, quickwrite analyzing a poetic device, writing your own poetic devices, labeling the rhyme scheme, etc. ) Materials to study: Love and death packet, Latino packet, personification / concrete packet, sonnets packet, poetry terms sheet Additional study materials (annotations and terms) on my website!

Figures of Speech: Definitions Literary Terms: Definitions Poetic Devices: Definitions Poetic Forms Identifying Poetic Devices Identifying Literary Devices 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

A comparison between two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS. (Provide Example) A 100

What is a simile? Ex: My love is as boundless as the sea; Her eyes sparkled like diamonds A 100

A comparison between two unlike things WITHOUT using words such as like or as. (Provide Example) A 200

What is a metaphor? *A metaphor says that one thing IS another thing. Ex. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. A 200

The giving of human qualities to an inanimate object, animal, or idea. (Provide Example) A 300

What is personification? Ex. The house’s walls breathed with every gust of wind. A 300

An indirect reference to a famous person, place, historical event, or literary work. (Provide Example) A 400

What is an allusion? Ex. He is our local Paul Revere. A 400

A statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought and hold significance. (Provide Example) A 500

What is paradox? Ex. I must be cruel to be kind. I can resist anything but temptation. A 500

An author’s attitude about the subject as demonstrated through his word choice (diction) B 100

What is tone? B 100

The attitude that the reader develops from the passage as influenced by the author’s diction. B 200

What is mood? B 200

Purposeful word choice. The specific words are chosen for either a special emphasis or connotation. B 300

What is diction? Ex. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf *Romped is an example of diction because it has a positive and playful connotation. Romped means to play around in a lively manner. B 300

The dictionary definition of a word. (Provide Example) B 400

What is denotation? Ex. Cheater: a person or thing who cheats. B 400

The feelings/emotions associated with a word. (Provide Example) B 500

What is connotation? Ex. Cheater: negative connotation B 500

A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Each rhyme is assigned a letter of the alphabet starting with a. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter. C 100

What is the rhyme scheme? Ex. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth a b a a b C 100

Words that sound like their meaning. (Provide Example) C 200

What is the onomatopoeia? Ex. swoosh, zip, click, zoom, pop, crackle C 200

Approximate rhyme; occurs when poets attempt to rhyme words that simply do not rhyme exactly. C 300

What is the slant rhyme? Ex. What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry? C 300

DAILY Place A Wager DOUBLE C 400

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. (Provide Example) C 400

What is alliteration? Ex. Which circle slowly with a silken swish C 400

The same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines in a sequence. (Provide Example) C 500

What is anaphora? Ex. It was the best of times, It was the worst of times, It was the age of wisdom, It was the age of foolishness, C 500

A form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. D 100

What is free verse? D 100

A poem in which the poet uses a visible shape to create a picture related to the poem’s subject. D 200

What is concrete poem? D 200

A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter and follows the rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. D 300

What is a Shakespearean Sonnet? D 300

A line of poetry that consists of five pairs of alternated stressed and unstressed syllables. D 400

What is iambic pentameter? Ex. But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? D 400

The structure of a Shakespearean sonnet. D 500

What is three quatrains and a rhyming couplet? What is the Volta? D 500

Identify an example of repetition. E 100

What is “He will keep telling jokes”? E 100

Identify the line that starts the Volta. E 200

What is “And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare”? E 200

Explain the importance of the line “American but hyphenated” in connection to how the speaker feels. Also, find an example of alliteration. E 300

What is the speaker will always be seen as Mexican. American, not just solely American or solely Mexican? What is “definitely different”? E 300

Identify three examples of anaphora. E 400

What is: able to slip from “How’s life? ” to “Me’stan volviendo loca, ” able to sit in a paneled office drafting memos in smooth English, able to order in fluent Spanish at a Mexican restaurant, viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic, perhaps inferior, definitely different, viewed by Mexicans as alien, by smiling by masking the discomfort E 400

Identify the rhyme scheme. Hint: There is slant rhyme in this poem. E 500

What is ABBACDCDCD? Slant Rhyme: “Grace” and “day’s” E 500

Find the simile. F 100

What is “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay”? F 100

Find examples of diction that have a negative connotation. F 200

What is “reeks” and “treads”? F 200

Find an example of personification. F 300

What is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”? F 300

Provide a tone word for this poem and an explanation why. F 400

What is the speaker is resentful, angry, and annoyed because she is constantly judged by both the American and Mexican cultures? F 400

Find 3 examples of paradox. F 500

What is “dark is right, ” “sad height, ” “Curse, bless, ” and “blinding sight”? F 500

The Final Jeopardy Category is: Poetry Analysis Please record your wager. Click on screen to begin

1. Identify the poetic form? 2. Find an example of: Personification Onomatopoeia Alliteration Click on screen to continue

What is free verse? Personification: “Any meal is dangerous / but they fear breakfast most. ” Onomatopoeia: “whirring” Alliteration: “that destroyer of dozens” Click on screen to continue

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