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What literary device depicts nature in sympathy with the protagonist's mood?
 
pathetic fallacy
 
hyperbole
 
onomatopoeia
 
imagery
Which of the following is a correct sentence?
 
I can't wait for this poetry class to end!
 
Poetry is very boring, it won't help me get a job.
 
When the poetry starts.
 
If your a poet you will be poor.
How many lines in a sonnet?
 
14
 
12
 
3
 
5
Who was the first epic poet in European culture?
 
Homer
 
Socrates
 
Hesiod
 
Shakespeare
Which of the following contains an error? Describe the problem.
 
All of them.
 
Were flying to Paris for christmas.
 
Their going to egypt for the Holidays.
 
Are you're Grandparents coming from Barcelona spain.
What form of language is being used in the gif?
 
all of these
 
proverb
 
idiom
 
cliche
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
 
metapher
 
simile
 
hyperbole
 
imagery
What is the theme of The Gift of the Magi?
 
all of these
 
sacrifice
 
love
 
irony
Who wrote The Gift of the Magi?
 
O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
 
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
 
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet)
 
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
Dickinson mostly used which meter?
 
iambic tetrameter
 
iambic pentameter
 
sonnets
 
free verse
Emily Dickinson
 
all of the above
 
spent her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
 
became a recluse.
 
was almost unknown in her lifetime.
Which of the following would we use in this sentence? "Are we _______ yet?"
 
there
 
their
 
they're
 
their all write
Why do we call multiple haiku "haiku" and not "haikus?"
 
Japanese nouns aren't pluralized (though some pronouns are).
 
The "s" sound doesn't exist in Japanese.
 
Japanese is a syllabary rather than an alphabet.
 
It sounds more sophisticated.
Which spelling is correct?
 
haiku
 
high-ku
 
hikoo
 
haikoo
A cinquain is
 
a stanza with 5 lines.
 
a line with 5 iambic feet.
 
a stanza with 4 lines.
 
a line with 5 trochaic feet.
Trochaic tetrameter
 
stresses the first, third, fifth and seventh syllables.
 
stresses the first, third and fifth syllables.
 
stresses the second, fourth, sixth and eighth syllables.
 
stresses the first, second and third syllables.
William Butler Yeats
 
all of these.
 
was Irish.
 
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
wrote "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
Which of the following is NOT a lyric poem?
 
Ozymandias
 
What is No Good
 
If-
 
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Ozymandias was
 
the Greek name for Pharaoh Ramsess II.
 
a character on a famous TV show.
 
another name for Napoleon.
 
a mythical character.
Percy Bysse Shelley
 
all of these.
 
died young.
 
was married to the author of Frankenstein.
 
an Englisman who spent much of his life in Italy.
Robert Frost
 
is one of the most famous American poets.
 
was unknown in his lifetime.
 
didn't like being around people.
 
wrote limericks for children.
James Berry was
 
a Jamaican who emigrated to the UK.
 
an American voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
 
won the Nobel Prize.
 
worked as a doctor.
Rudyard Kipling
 
all of these
 
was an Englishman who spen years in India.
 
won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
 
wrote The Jungle Book.
Shakespeare's meter in his plays is unrhymed iambic pentameter, also known as:
 
blank verse
 
couplets
 
sonnets
 
epics
What does James Berry want to remove from his beloved's world?
 
maybe all of these
 
pain
 
imperfection
 
color
What imagery and ideas does Frost use in some of his poems?
 
all of these
 
woods
 
decisions
 
snow and ice
What is the theme of Kipling's "IF?"
 
all of these
 
perseverence (persisting despite obstacles)
 
maturity
 
courage
Which word is NOT pictured here?
 
paucity
 
abundance
 
excess
 
superfluity
Which word is spelled incorrectly?
 
breif
 
average
 
authority
 
cease
A story that resembles the theme and narrative of another story is called an:
 
allegory
 
benefit
 
morality
 
chapter
Which word best describes this scene?
 
luminous
 
flatulence
 
balderdash
 
paucity
Benefit can be a noun AND an adjective.
 
False
 
True
What is a euphemism for "short?"
 
diminutive
 
luminous
 
ravenous
 
allegory
What is a euphemism for "flatulence?"
 
break wind
 
fail upward
 
stink up a room
 
rock the boat
Which word is spelled correctly?
 
assure
 
ashure
 
asure
 
asshure
Which adjective best describes his behavior?
 
cantankerous
 
flatulent
 
apathetic
 
average
Which of the following best describes this fellow?
 
curmudgeon
 
apathetic
 
diminutive
 
ravenous
"Approach" can be a noun AND a verb.
 
True
 
False
Which word means refers to a nice way of saying something not so nice?
 
euphemism
 
curmudgeon
 
luminous
 
allegory
Which word means something ridiculous that is obviously not right?
 
balderdash
 
ravenous
 
allegory
 
average
Which spelling is incorrect?
 
sease
 
accept
 
chapter
 
benefit
Which spelling is correct?
 
apparent
 
aparrent
 
apparrent
 
apparint
Which spelling is correct?
 
account
 
acount
 
akownt
 
uccount
Which spelling is correct?
 
accompany
 
ucompenie
 
acompany
 
eccompany
Which spelling is correct?
 
accept
 
ecept
 
axcept
 
eccept