1. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. These lines are an example of a/an A. quatrain. B. octet. C. couplet. D. sestet. 2. The line I wandered lonely as a cloud is an example of A. a metaphor. B. a simile. C. a couplet. D. alliteration. 3. In Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? Shakespeare claims that the object of his sonnet will be immortal because A. hell always love her. B. shes for all seasons. C. shell live on in his poem. D. shes like the summers day. 4. Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor? A. I am a rock. B. She eats like a bird. C. Im as hungry as a wolf. D. The breeze blew the branches back and forth. 5. The way Cowley uses the phrase my own country is an example of A. simile. B. consonance. C. repetition. D. personification. 6. The phrase mid-May is an example of A. assonance. B. consonance. C. alliteration. D. metaphor. 7. During the Romantic period, poets placed an emphasis on A. discipline. B. order. C. hierarchy. D. nature. 8. Which one of the following words is an iamb? A. Rachel B. Alice C. JoAnne D. Sally 9. The line A tree whose hungry mouth is prest is an example of iambic A. trimeter. B. pentameter. C. tetrameter. D. dimeter. 10. What is the most probable reason that rhyme and repetition first found their ways into poems? A. People wanted a beat they could dance to. B. They were written for the upper class. C. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way. D. The poems were easier to remember and pass on. 11. Which one of the poems youve read uses the words floats, fluttering, and dancing? A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud B. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds C. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day? D. The Long Voyage 12. Emphasizing the importance of order, law, discipline, and tradition is typical of _______ literature. A. Romantic B. Classical C. discursive D. dramatic 13. Which one of the following phrases is an example of consonance? A. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be B. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines C. Drink to me only with thine eyes D. River birch and upland beech 14. Which one of the poems youve read has the rhyme scheme AA BB CC . . . ? A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud B. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds C. The Long Voyage D. Trees 15. Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds is an example of which type of poem? A. Narrative B. Discursive C. Dramatic D. Descriptive 16. Foam brightens like the dogwood now is an example of A. a simile. B. a metaphor. C. alliteration. D. consonance. 17. The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare s sonnets is A. AABB CCDD EEFF GG. B. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. C. ABBA CDDC EFFE GG. D. ABCD ABCD ABCD GG. 18. Who are the fools mentioned in the poem Trees? A. Poets B. Gods C. Trees D. Robins 19. The repeated use of the o sound in A host, of golden daffodils is called A. consonance. B. assonance. C. alliteration. D. rhyme. 20. A definition of formal poetry is verse that A. sticks to certain traditional patterns. B. has no rhyme scheme. C. uses figurative language. D. is written in blank verse.
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