Poetry Test Review

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

A non-literal comparison of two things without using “like” or “as”.

Question 2

Paradox

Answer 2

An apparent contradiction that is in some sense true.

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Giving human attributes to a non-human object or process.

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

A non-literal comparison between two things using “like” or “as”.

Question 5

Symbol

Answer 5

A concrete object or process that has another meaning to it.

Question 6

Synecdoche

Answer 6

Using something closely identified with an object to mean the object; (e.g the pen is mightier than the sword)

Question 7

Metonymy

Answer 7

Using part of an object to suggest the whole object (e.g Like my new wheels? - car)

Question 8

Alliteration

Answer 8

Repetition of initial consonant sounds (Peter Piper Picked a Pack…)

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

Repetition of internal vowel sounds (After apple, Groovy Tube)

Question 10

Consonance

Answer 10

Repetition of internal consonant sounds without repeating vowel sounds (fun win, big leg)

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

A word whose sound is its meaning(Kapow! Blam! Thwack!)

Question 12

Phonetic Intensive

Answer 12

A word whose sound suggests its meaning (whisper, flicker, glimmer, whoosh)

Question 13

Rhyme

Answer 13

Repetition of both internal consonant and vowel sounds (ring…sing, fall…tall)

Question 14

Slant/Approximate Rhyme

Answer 14

When words mostly rhyme, but not completely (basin, brazen, asian, caisson, cave in, chasing, chasten, craven)

Question 15

“59” or “Lonely Prime Numbers”

Answer 15

Harry Baker; 59 liked 60 who was perfect and had many factors unlike prime 59, but he eventually found 61, another prime number. They were a “prime” example of love.

Question 16

“Introduction to Poetry”

Answer 16

Billy Collins; People too often try to “beat” the meaning out of a poem, but Billy Collins wants them to read it lightly and interpret it as they will. (“waterski across the pond, waving to the author on the shore”)

Question 17

“The Vaccuum”

Answer 17

Howard Nemerov; The speaker fears turning on the vacuum because it reminds him too much of his dead partner/wife who frequently used the vacuum. Some have pointed out that the bag that swells like a belly could indicate the wife was pregnant before dying.

Question 18

“My Papa’s Waltz”

Answer 18

Theodore Roethke; The speaker is older, and looking back at his youth and his father before the father died. The father dances drunken and clumsy with the son, but the son learns to appreciate those moments later. *Note the presence of a mother figure in this poem compared to in “Those Winter Sundays”.

Question 19

“Sir Patrick Spens”

Answer 19

*Folk Ballad - Many people; This poem details the journey of a great and brave sailor that has great allegiance to the king. The king asks him to sail at a poor time of year. Sir Patrick spens knows he will die at sea, but must obey the king and keep his allegiance. He goes anyway, and his ship sinks. The sailors were “buried at his feet” to symbolize his power and bravery at sea.

Question 20

“What the Living Do”

Answer 20

Marie Howe; Marie Howe’s brother has died from AIDS, and the speaker (presumably her) has been grieving enough that she has a hard time staying motivated to take care of herself now. She sees her reflection in a storefront mirror, and it is a turning point because she notices her sloppy appearance. She turns toward living on and remembering Johnny instead of continuing to mourn him.

Question 21

“The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Innocence)

Answer 21

William Blake; The speaker has been through the horrors of the chimney sweep profession, but amazingly still has some innocence. He tells a new sweep (Tom Dacre) who is getting his head shaved that it is good because the ashes wont get his beautiful blonde hair black. This shows the innocence of the speaker still.

Question 22

“The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Experience)

Answer 22

William Blake; The speaker has been through the chimney sweep profession for years now, and has been rejected because he is about to die from accumulation of ash in his lungs, and suffocation. He tells a passerby that his parents thought they were doing him good by getting him into the profession of being a chimney sweep, but we know that this decision will kill the speaker.

Question 23

“Those Winter Sundays”

Answer 23

Robert Hayden; Just as in “My Papa’s Waltz”, the speaker is older now looking back on his childhood and father. The father we know works very hard and is up early chopping wood with split hands. This may be because of an absense of a mother figure, and the speaker feels some guilt as he says that “[he] never thanked him” for the work he did for the family. We also know that the father got them to church.

Question 24

“Skunk Burial”

Answer 24

Doug Stone; The speaker smells a roadkill skunk in his house, and gets mad at his neighbors for not cleaning it up. He goes to clean it up and realizes the dead skunk was pregnant with a cub half-alive and suffering. He kills the cub out of mercy, and goes to burn the skunk and his clothes as a spiritual ritual. The mother and baby skunk could have a connection to Mary and Jesus christ.

Question 25

“Summer Night” (Chinese Introduction)

Answer 25

*Not said; There are many wildlife references, but it also mentions prospects of war.

Question 26

“Nothing Gold Can Stay”

Answer 26

Robert Frost; Nothing good can last forever, and moments are futile. Savor every good moment you can.

Question 27

“We Real Cool”

Answer 27

Gwendolyn Brooks; The poem has a rhyme scheme without the “we” at the end of each line, but the “we’s” throw off the rhyme scheme.

Question 28

Sonnet 18

Answer 28

Shakespeare; Written to a man (The Earl of Northampton) in the early 1500s, it suggests the beauty of the Earl to win his trust, and also suggests to him that he might want to have children through the art of flattery. “Thou eternal summer shall not fade”.

Question 29

Sonnet 130

Answer 29

Shakespeare; Written to The Dark Lady, this poem suggests the beauty of the everyday women, and it breaks down some gender stereotypes/roles that we still follow today regarding how a woman “should” look. This was rare to see from literature back then.

Question 30

When does Ruth reveal she is pregnant and thinking about an abortion?

Answer 30

Act 1 Scene 2

Question 31

When does Walter come home drunk shouting OCOMOGOSIAY?

Answer 31

Act 2 Scene 1

Question 32

When does Mrs. Johnson come into the apartment telling the news of the recent firebombing?

Answer 32

Act 2 Scene 2

Question 33

When does Mama give Walter the remaining insurance money?

Answer 33

Act 2 Scene 2

Question 34

When does Karl Lindner appear for the first time trying to convince the Youngers to let the new neighborhood buy the lot from them?

Answer 34

Act 2 Scene 3

Question 35

When does Walter realize that he lost all the money?

Answer 35

Act 2 Scene 3

Question 36

When does Asagai reappear asking Beneatha to move to Africa and marry him?

Answer 36

Act 3

Question 37

What is mama’s main symbol as the family, which she likes to “tend to”?

Answer 37

The plant

Question 38

What is the first name of the first acting company joined by Shakespeare?

Answer 38

“The Chamberlain’s Men”

Question 39

What are good quartos, and what are bad quartos?

Answer 39

Quarto=copy; Good quartos are prepared from Shakespeare’s own manuscripts; Bad quartos are prepared from actor’s/scripts’ memories from people who would visit the plays, then try to publish them a their own.

Question 40

How many plays by Shakespeare actually appear in quarto form?

Answer 40

18

Question 41

History of the globe theater:

Answer 41

When built Shakespeare was a 1/10th shareholder, during a performance one night a cannon squib set the building on fire, the globe was then rebuilt, it is then pulled down by order of the puritan government, - 1994 the new globe is built on the same site as the old globe.