Fireside Poet Test

Question 1

Short Answer:

Four reasons why fireside poets were popular

Answer 1

1. They created verse that was inspired by the average reader.
2. The verse was written to be understood by the average reader
3. They were conservative, which enabled it to be a family affair
4. They showed a blatant morality

Question 2

Authors:

One of the founders of modern American Poetry

Answer 2

Emily Dickinson

Question 3

Authors:

The least popular of all the fireside poets

Answer 3

James Russell Lowell

Question 4

Authors:

Only American to be included in poets corner

Answer 4

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 5

Authors:

Who was born in poverty and received no formal education

Answer 5

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 6

Authors:

Who wrote 1,786 poems

Answer 6

Emily Dickinson

Question 7

Authors:

Who made contributions to literature and medicine

Answer 7

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 8

Authors:

Who is deeply involved in social issues

Answer 8

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 9

Authors:

Last generation of highly regarded writers

Answer 9

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 10

Authors:

Personal life tragedies over shadowed literary success

Answer 10

James Russell Lowell

Question 11

Authors:

Agoraphobic

Answer 11

Emily Dickinson

Question 12

Authors:

Most work not published until 1955

Answer 12

Emily Dickinson

Question 13

Authors:

Work was translated into 2 dozen different languages

Answer 13

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 14

Authors:

Who created a national interest in poetry

Answer 14

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 15

Authors:

Did not gain national prominence as a poet until late in life because of the abolitionist movement

Answer 15

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 16

Who wrote it?:

To a Waterfowl

Answer 16

William Cullen Bryant

Question 17

Who wrote it?:

Old Ironsides

Answer 17

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 18

Who wrote it?:

The Chambered Nautilus

Answer 18

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Question 19

Who wrote it?:

Hiawatha

Answer 19

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 20

Who wrote it?:

Paul Revere’s ride

Answer 20

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Question 21

Who wrote it?:

Barbara Frietchie

Answer 21

John Greenleaf Whittier

Question 22

Who wrote it?:

Because I could not stop for death

Answer 22

Emily Dickerson

Question 23

Who wrote it?:

Success is counted sweetest

Answer 23

Emily Dickerson

Question 24

Cinquain

Answer 24

Five consecutive lines of poetry

Question 25

Couplet

Answer 25

Two consecutive lines of poetry

Question 26

Imagery

Answer 26

Words or phrases that create mental pictures

Question 27

Meter

Answer 27

Systematic arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry

Question 28

Octave

Answer 28

Eight consecutive lines of poetry

Question 29

Quatrain

Answer 29

Four consecutive lines of poetry

Question 30

Scansion

Answer 30

The analysis of meter of a poem

Question 31

Sestet

Answer 31

Six consecutive lines of poetry

Question 32

Stanza

Answer 32

Unit of poetry consisting of two or more lines arranged in a pattern according to rhyme, meter, or rhythm

Question 33

Style

Answer 33

Refers to the manner in which a writer puts ideas into words

Question 34

Tercet

Answer 34

Three lines of poetry

Question 35

Tone

Answer 35

A writer’s attitude towards the subject, characters, or audience