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What is the form of a poem?

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

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What is alliteration?

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

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.

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What is consonance?

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

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What is rhyme?

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

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What is a simile?

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

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What is a metaphor?

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

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What is personification?

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

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What is a sonnet?

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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.

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What does ‘vista’ mean?

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Vista means a passage affording a distant view.

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What does ‘insidious’ mean?

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Insidious means working subtly and gradually; treacherous.

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What does ‘vain’ mean?

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Vain means useless.

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What does ‘chronic’ mean?

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Chronic means lasting or recurring for a long time.

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What does ‘austere’ mean?

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Austere means stern; severe.

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What does ‘temperate’ mean?

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Temperate means mild; moderate.

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What is the form of a poem?

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

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What is alliteration?

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

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What is assonance?

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Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within words.

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What is consonance?

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

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What is rhyme?

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

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What is a simile?

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

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What is a metaphor?

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

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What is personification?

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

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What is a sonnet?

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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.

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What does ‘vista’ mean?

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Vista means a passage affording a distant view.

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What does ‘insidious’ mean?

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Insidious means working subtly and gradually; treacherous.

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What does ‘vain’ mean?

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Vain means useless.

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What does ‘chronic’ mean?

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Chronic means lasting or recurring for a long time.

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What does ‘austere’ mean?

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Austere means stern; severe.

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What does ‘temperate’ mean?

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Temperate means mild; moderate.

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What does ‘untrimmed’ mean?

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Stripped of beauty

32
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What is a ‘spar’?

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A pole used to support a ship’s sail

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What does ‘want’ mean?

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Need

34
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What time is recalled in Hayder’s ‘Those Winter Sundays’?

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The Past

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

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Warms the house and shines his shoes

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

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Ungrateful

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

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His mom playing the piano and singing to him

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What is the setting of the poem ‘Piano’?

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His childhood home

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What memory is the poem revealing?

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His childhood

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

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Summer

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

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

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

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It is not something we desire

43
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Who was William Shakespeare?

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

44
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Who did William Shakespeare marry?

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Anne Hathaway, with whom he had 3 children

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When did Shakespeare move to London?

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In the 1580’s

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What was the name of the theater company Shakespeare joined?

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The Lord Chamberlain’s Men

47
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What was the theater group known as later?

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The King’s Players

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Where did The King’s Players mainly perform?

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At the Globe Theater in London

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What did Shakespeare leave his heirs?

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A large inheritance

50
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How many sonnets and dramas did Shakespeare write?

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Over 150 sonnets and over 35 dramas

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Who was Edna St. Vincent Millay?

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

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What did Millay’s work reflect?

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

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