Unit 2 Flashcards
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is known as?
Rhyme
In this most commonly used type of rhyme, the syllables are exactly alike.
Perfect rhyme
When word pairs rhyme and occur within a single line of poetry, it is called?
Internal rhyme
The most common meter in English (5 sets of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)
Iambic pentameter
GIve an example of slant rhyme
Wood and food; tone and one
The repetition of initial consonant sounds is what?
Alliteration
In the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind,” what assumption does the author make about wind?
Even though you can’t see the wind, the movement of objects shows the fact that wind exists.
In “Rattlesnake,” what 2 aspects of the rattlesnake does Chavez highlight?
The beauty of the snake is compared to its fearsomeness
What sound device is:
Crawl-created
Articulated
coil of cloisonne
Alliteration
Assonance
Alliteration
What part of speech does Hoey use to build suspense in “Foul Shot?”
He uses verbs such as: lands, leans, wavers
What literary device is used when Hoey says the ball “dives” and “plays it coy”?
Personification
“On the Grasshopper and the Cricket, which sound device does Keats use here: “–he has never done with his delights.”
Consonance
In the poem “One-Man Band,” what sound device is used with phrases like “boom a blat” “a toot” and “a honk”?
Onomatopoeia
In Edwin Hoey’s “Foul Shot,” what sound and syntax devices are seen in the following lines?
Lands
Leans
Woobles
Wavers
Hesitates
Exasperates
Alliteration and Consonance
What is an effective device in speechmaking and poetry, which is the use of asking a question to achieve an effect?
Rhetorical question
The deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or paragraphs?
Anaphora
Crane describes the horses hooves as a “swift storm of sound.” This quote is an example of?
Alliteration
What type of rhyme is found by the words “road” and “dead” in Stafford’s “Traveling thru the Dark?”
Slant Rhyme
Stafford says that the speaker “could hear the wilderness listen.” Which literary device is he using?
Personification
What is the meaning of the word “manacles” in the following quote from “I Have a Dream” speech?
100 years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly cripple by the manacles of segregation.
Which poem in Unit 2 takes as its title a rhetorical question?
“Who Has Seen the Wind?”
True/False “Who Has Seen the Wind” is a free verse poem.
False - Rhyming poem
True/False Hoey’s repetition of the phrase “and then” is a dactylic rhyme.
False - it is suspense
Crane uses the literary device of personification in the sentence, “Some crickets chirped in the long grass, and the nearest pine could be heard in its sighs.”
True
When Chavez describes the rattlesnake as “scrolling inward like a hive,” he is using a metaphor.
False - a simile
