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1. If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
These lines are an example of a/an
A. quatrain.
B. octet.
C. couplet.
D. sestet.
2. The line "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of
A. a metaphor.
B. a simile.
C. a couplet.
D. alliteration.
3. Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor?
A. I am a rock.
B. She eats like a bird.
C. I'm as hungry as a wolf.
D. The breeze blew the branches back and forth.
4. The way Cowley uses the phrase "my own country" is an example of
A. simile.
B. consonance.
C. repetition.
D. personification.
5. The phrase "mid-May" is an example of
A. assonance.
B. consonance.
C. alliteration.
D. metaphor.
6. During the Romantic period, poets placed an emphasis on
A. discipline.
B. order.
C. hierarchy.
D. nature.
7. Which one of the following words is an iamb?
A. Rachel
B. Alice
C. JoAnne
D. Sally
8. The line "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest" is an example of iambic
A. trimeter.
B. pentameter.
C. tetrameter.
D. dimeter.
9. What is the most probable reason that rhyme and repetition first found their ways into poems?
A. People wanted a beat they could dance to.
B. They were written for the upper class.
C. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way.
D. The poems were easier to remember and pass on.
10. Emphasizing the importance of order, law, discipline, and tradition is typical of _______ literature.
A. Romantic
B. Classical
C. discursive
D. dramatic
11. Which one of the following phrases is an example of consonance?
A. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be
B. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
C. Drink to me only with thine eyes
D. River birch and upland beech
12. "Foam brightens like the dogwood now" is an example of
A. a simile.
B. a metaphor.
C. alliteration.
D. consonance.
13. A definition of formal poetry is verse that
A. sticks to certain traditional patterns.
B. has no rhyme scheme.
C. uses figurative language.
D. is written in blank verse. |
