Unit 2

Question 1

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables is known as?

Answer 1

Rhyme

Question 2

In this most commonly used type of rhyme, the syllables are exactly alike.

Answer 2

Perfect rhyme

Question 3

When word pairs rhyme and occur within a single line of poetry, it is called?

Answer 3

Internal rhyme

Question 4

The most common meter in English (5 sets of one unstressed and one stressed syllable)

Answer 4

Iambic pentameter

Question 5

GIve an example of slant rhyme

Answer 5

Wood and food; tone and one

Question 6

The repetition of initial consonant sounds is what?

Answer 6

Alliteration

Question 7

In the poem “Who Has Seen the Wind,” what assumption does the author make about wind?

Answer 7

Even though you can’t see the wind, the movement of objects shows the fact that wind exists.

Question 8

In “Rattlesnake,” what 2 aspects of the rattlesnake does Chavez highlight?

Answer 8

The beauty of the snake is compared to its fearsomeness

Question 9

What sound device is:
Crawl-created
Articulated
coil of cloisonne

Answer 9

Alliteration
Assonance
Alliteration

Question 10

What part of speech does Hoey use to build suspense in “Foul Shot?”

Answer 10

He uses verbs such as: lands, leans, wavers

Question 11

What literary device is used when Hoey says the ball “dives” and “plays it coy”?

Answer 11

Personification

Question 12

“On the Grasshopper and the Cricket, which sound device does Keats use here: “–he has never done with his delights.”

Answer 12

Consonance

Question 13

In the poem “One-Man Band,” what sound device is used with phrases like “boom a blat” “a toot” and “a honk”?

Answer 13

Onomatopoeia

Question 14

In Edwin Hoey’s “Foul Shot,” what sound and syntax devices are seen in the following lines?
Lands
Leans
Woobles
Wavers
Hesitates
Exasperates

Answer 14

Alliteration and Consonance

Question 15

What is an effective device in speechmaking and poetry, which is the use of asking a question to achieve an effect?

Answer 15

Rhetorical question

Question 16

The deliberate repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or paragraphs?

Answer 16

Anaphora

Question 17

Crane describes the horses hooves as a “swift storm of sound.” This quote is an example of?

Answer 17

Alliteration

Question 18

What type of rhyme is found by the words “road” and “dead” in Stafford’s “Traveling thru the Dark?”

Answer 18

Slant Rhyme

Question 19

Stafford says that the speaker “could hear the wilderness listen.” Which literary device is he using?

Answer 19

Personification

Question 20

What is the meaning of the word “manacles” in the following quote from “I Have a Dream” speech?

Answer 20

100 years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly cripple by the manacles of segregation.

Question 21

Which poem in Unit 2 takes as its title a rhetorical question?

Answer 21

“Who Has Seen the Wind?”

Question 22

True/False “Who Has Seen the Wind” is a free verse poem.

Answer 22

False - Rhyming poem

Question 23

True/False Hoey’s repetition of the phrase “and then” is a dactylic rhyme.

Answer 23

False - it is suspense

Question 24

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.”

Answer 24

True

Question 25

When Chavez describes the rattlesnake as “scrolling inward like a hive,” he is using a metaphor.

Answer 25

False - a simile