Unit 7

Question 1

Poetry is artfully compressed thought resulting in the elevated expression of ideas (word for word)

Answer 1

Poetry

Question 2

Words that Appel to one or more of the five sense

Answer 2

Concrete Language

Question 3

The meaning of a word plus all of its implications and emotional associations

Answer 3

Connotative Language

Question 4

A regular pace or beat

Answer 4

Rhythm

Question 5

Divisions in poetry based on thought, meter, or rhyme and recognized by the number of lines they contain

Answer 5

Stanza

Question 6

A brief poem expressing the personal views of a single speaker on a particular topic.

Answer 6

Lyric Poem

Question 7

A composition written in meter

Answer 7

Verse

Question 8

Verse having end rhyme and regular meter

Answer 8

Rhymed Verse

Question 9

The pattern of rhyme and regular meter

Answer 9

Rhyme Scheme

Question 10

Poetry who’s first eight lines form a distinct unit of thought and whose last six lines form another

Answer 10

Italian Sonnet

Question 11

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 11

Blank Verse

Question 12

Poetry with no set meter or rhyme

Answer 12

Free Verse

Question 13

A pair of rhymed lines

Answer 13

Couplet

Question 14

A pair of rhyming lines written in iambic pentameter

Answer 14

Heroic Couplet

Question 15

Poetry whose thought is usually distributed over three quatrains with a concluding couplet, the whole rhyming abab cdcd efef go

Answer 15

English Sonnet

Question 16

A stanza or poem of four lines

Answer 16

Quatrain

Question 17

A stanza of three lines that usually share the same rhyme

Answer 17

Triplet

Question 18

A stanza of six lines

Answer 18

Sestet

Question 19

A stanza of eight lines

Answer 19

Octave

Question 20

Poetry differs from prose in the following:

Answer 20

It uses the marks and modes of literature with greater intensity
It more often uses languages for both its meaning and beauty
It values imagination and emotion more

Question 21

Imagery may appear in poems in the following forms:

Answer 21

Concrete language
Allusions
Imaginative comparison

Question 22

The sounds of a poem can do all of the following:

Answer 22

They can add to a poem’s aesthetic appeal
They can enhance a poem’s mood
They can ass emphasis to parts of a poem

Question 23

The most basic structural division of poetry is the

Answer 23

Line

Question 24

It is sometimes helpful to consider what

Answer 24

To consider which word a poet did not use at a certain point

Question 25

Many literary critics do not consider rhyme to be the defining characteristics of poetry. (True or False)

Answer 25

False. There are other defining characteristics as well

Question 26

The genre of Snow-Bound is

Answer 26

Narrative poetry

Question 27

The main image of the indoor setting is the

Answer 27

Fire. It creates a warm, welcoming atmosphere

Question 28

Whittier’s tone toward nature is

Answer 28

Neutral. There is a danger but also a beauty.