Poetry

Question 1

What is the form of a poem?

Answer 1

The form of a poem is the physical arrangement of words on the page.

Question 2

What is alliteration?

Answer 2

Alliteration is a repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.

Question 3

What is assonance?

Answer 3

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.

Question 4

What is consonance?

Answer 4

Consonance is a repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.

Question 5

What is rhyme?

Answer 5

Rhyme is a repetition of final sounds in two or more words.

Question 6

What is a simile?

Answer 6

A simile is a comparison using the signal words like or as.

Question 7

What is a metaphor?

Answer 7

A metaphor is a direct comparison, using no signal words.

Question 8

What is personification?

Answer 8

Personification is a type of figurative language giving animals, objects, or ideas human characteristics.

Question 9

What is a sonnet?

Answer 9

A sonnet consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into three quatrains and a couplet that rhymes, with a fixed rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

Question 10

What does ‘vista’ mean?

Answer 10

Vista means a passage affording a distant view.

Question 11

What does ‘insidious’ mean?

Answer 11

Insidious means working subtly and gradually; treacherous.

Question 12

What does ‘vain’ mean?

Answer 12

Vain means useless.

Question 13

What does ‘chronic’ mean?

Answer 13

Chronic means lasting or recurring for a long time.

Question 14

What does ‘austere’ mean?

Answer 14

Austere means stern; severe.

Question 15

What does ‘temperate’ mean?

Answer 15

Temperate means mild; moderate.

Question 16

What is the form of a poem?

Answer 16

The form of a poem is the physical arrangement of words on the page.

Question 17

What is alliteration?

Answer 17

Alliteration is a repetition of initial consonant sounds in nearby words.

Question 18

What is assonance?

Answer 18

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.

Question 19

What is consonance?

Answer 19

Consonance is a repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.

Question 20

What is rhyme?

Answer 20

Rhyme is a repetition of final sounds in two or more words.

Question 21

What is a simile?

Answer 21

A simile is a comparison using the signal words like or as.

Question 22

What is a metaphor?

Answer 22

A metaphor is a direct comparison, using no signal words.

Question 23

What is personification?

Answer 23

Personification is a type of figurative language giving animals, objects, or ideas human characteristics.

Question 24

What is a sonnet?

Answer 24

A sonnet consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. The Shakespearean sonnet is divided into three quatrains and a couplet that rhymes, with a fixed rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.

Question 25

What does 'vista' mean?

Answer 25

Vista means a passage affording a distant view.

Question 26

What does 'insidious' mean?

Answer 26

Insidious means working subtly and gradually; treacherous.

Question 27

What does 'vain' mean?

Answer 27

Vain means useless.

Question 28

What does 'chronic' mean?

Answer 28

Chronic means lasting or recurring for a long time.

Question 29

What does 'austere' mean?

Answer 29

Austere means stern; severe.

Question 30

What does 'temperate' mean?

Answer 30

Temperate means mild; moderate.

Question 31

What does 'untrimmed' mean?

Answer 31

Stripped of beauty

Question 32

What is a 'spar'?

Answer 32

A pole used to support a ship's sail

Question 33

What does 'want' mean?

Answer 33

Need

Question 34

What time is recalled in Hayder's 'Those Winter Sundays'?

Answer 34

The Past

Question 35

In 'Those Winter Sundays,' what does the father do for his son?

Answer 35

Warms the house and shines his shoes

Question 36

How does the son react to his father's actions?

Answer 36

Ungrateful

Question 37

In 'Piano,' what is D. H. Lawrence recalling about his childhood?

Answer 37

His mom playing the piano and singing to him

Question 38

What is the setting of the poem 'Piano'?

Answer 38

His childhood home

Question 39

What memory is the poem revealing?

Answer 39

His childhood

Question 40

In Shakespeare's 'Sonnet 18,' what is Shakespeare comparing his loved one to?

Answer 40

Summer

Question 41

In Millay's 'Sonnet 30,' what does she say love is not?

Answer 41

Meat, drink, a root against the rain, breath in your lungs

Question 42

In Millay's 'Sonnet 30,' what seems to be the speaker's overall opinion of love?

Answer 42

It is not something we desire

Question 43

Who was William Shakespeare?

Answer 43

An English writer and poet born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England

Question 44

Who did William Shakespeare marry?

Answer 44

Anne Hathaway, with whom he had 3 children

Question 45

When did Shakespeare move to London?

Answer 45

In the 1580's

Question 46

What was the name of the theater company Shakespeare joined?

Answer 46

The Lord Chamberlain's Men

Question 47

What was the theater group known as later?

Answer 47

The King's Players

Question 48

Where did The King's Players mainly perform?

Answer 48

At the Globe Theater in London

Question 49

What did Shakespeare leave his heirs?

Answer 49

A large inheritance

Question 50

How many sonnets and dramas did Shakespeare write?

Answer 50

Over 150 sonnets and over 35 dramas

Question 51

Who was Edna St. Vincent Millay?

Answer 51

The first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923

Question 52

What did Millay's work reflect?

Answer 52

Many of the social changes that swept through the United States during that era