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English 10 Poetry Review

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  • Why was "Death, Be Not Proud" an example of apostrophe?
    The speaker is talking TO death
  • What is a caesura?
    a pause in the middle of a line
  • What is a stanza of 14 lines called?
    sonnet
  • What is free verse?
    poetry with no set rhyme or meter
  • What is an oxymoron?
    combining two opposite words like jumbo shrimp or bittersweet
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? rhyme
    red
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? Alliteration
    yellow
  • What is a stanza of 4 lines called?
    quatrain
  • True or False? "The Centaur" is about learning to deal with life's difficultues.
    false
  • True or False? "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun" is about how real love is more special than perfect love in poems.
    true
  • Who wrote the sonnets "Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's Day?" and :"My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun"?
    Shakespeare
  • Who was still learning to cope in the poem "Coping?"
    the young boy / the young seeds
  • What is a stanza of 2 lines called?
    couplet
  • Who wrote "Harlem" and "Dreams?"
    Langston Hughes
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? enjambment
    red
  • True or False? "The Optimist" was about having hope in heaven.
    true
  • What is the pattern of unstressed / stressed syllables called?
    iambic
  • What is a simile?
    a comparison using like or as
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? synesthesia
    green
  • What does "diction" mean?
    word choice
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? cacaphony
    yellow
  • True or False? Langston Hughes' poems were about believing in heaven.
    false
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? personification
    blue
  • Red, yellow, blue, or green? metaphor
    blue
  • What did the speaker encourage his lover to do in "Go Give the World?"
    share her beauty and joy with the world
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