Unit 4- Poems That Describe: Imagry & Figurative Language

Question 1

Words are chosen for their _________ (literal meanings)

Answer 1

Denotations

Question 2

The poet may paint word pictures through ________, the use of the words which appeal to our senses.

Answer 2

Imagery

Question 3

What includes various types of comparisons as well as language used on more than one level?

Answer 3

Figurative language

Question 4

Figurative language includes various types of comparisons which are:

Answer 4

Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Apostrophe

Question 5

Words are chosen for their _________ (suggested meanings or associations)

Answer 5

Connotations

Question 6

Who was the American journalist who was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania; earned a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University, and then returned from England and became an editor for several magazines including “Saturday Review” and wrote “Smells”?

Answer 6

Christopher Morley

Question 7

Who was the Spanish poet who’s simple poems used nature and folk themes and wrote “Platero and I”?

Answer 7

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Question 8

What is an expressed comparison of unlike things in which the words “like”,”as”,”resembles”, or “similar to” are used?

Answer 8

Simile

Question 9

Who was one of the leading English poets of the Victorian period and was considered the voice of the Victorian age and wrote “The Oak” and “The Deserted House”?

Answer 9

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Question 10

What is an implied comparison in which one thing is described in terms of another?

Answer 10

Metaphor

Question 11

What is a comparison in which human qualities are given to an inanimate object or an animal?

Answer 11

Personification

Question 12

Who was the popular German romantic writer from a Jewish family who was especially known for his lyrical poetry, which is characterized by intense emotion and irony and wrote “A Lonely Pine Is Standing”?

Answer 12

Heinrich Heine

Question 13

Who was not a famous American poet until after she died, and after attending Amherst Institute and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, isolated herself in Amherst, Massachusetts; dressing herself only in white and seeing no one but close friends, and wrote “I Like to See It Lap the Miles” and “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves”?

Answer 13

Emily Dickinson

Question 14

Sometimes a poet will exaggerate to emphasize a truth. What is this exaggeration called?

Answer 14

Overstatement or hyperbole

Question 15

What author was born in Hope, Illinois, had a Ph.D. from Columbia University, was a literary editor for “The Nation” magazine, his biographies include “Shakespeare” and “Nathaniel Hawthorne”, and he received a Pulitzer prize for his “Collected Poems” and wrote “The Story Teller?”

Answer 15

Mark Van Doren

Question 16

What has meaning in itself but also represents something beyond itself?

Answer 16

Symbol

Question 17

Who was a German poet, novelist, and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for literature, some of his famous novels being “Siddhartha”,”Steppenwolf”, and “Magister Ludi”, and his poems and novels express man’s spiritual loneliness and wrote “Alone”?

Answer 17

Hermann Hesse

Question 18

What poem is a comparison of life with a tree?

Answer 18

“The Oak”

Question 19

What poem is a description of a locomotive train?

Answer 19

“I Like to See It Lap the Miles”

Question 20

What poem is a description of snow?

Answer 20

“It Sifts from Leaden Sieves”

Question 21

What poem describes a tree’s dream of a better life?

Answer 21

“A Lonely Pine Is Standing”

Question 22

Who was an Irish poet, dramatist, and leader of the Irish Renaissance, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923, was in love with Maude Gonne but she rejected him, and wrote “The Folly of Being Comforted”?

Answer 22

William Butler Yeats

Question 23

Who wrote “Meeting at Night”?

Answer 23

Robert Browning