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| 1. | Haiku and sonnets are traditional forms of poetry because they have fixed patterns of meter, line length, and stanza arrangement. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
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| 2. | The organization of images, ideas, words, and lines within a poem is its |
| A. | stanza. |
| B. | structure. |
| C. | rhythm. |
| D. | meter. |
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| 3. | Interpreting imagery is a reading strategy that involves |
| A. | examining the expressive qualities that distinguish a poet’s work. |
| B. | making general statements about a poet’s values. |
| C. | checking your understanding as you read a poem. |
| D. | deciding how a poet’s use of “word pictures” creates meaning. |
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| 4. | A slant rhyme refers to the rhyming of words |
| A. | at the end of a line. |
| B. | within a single line. |
| C. | whose sound is similar but not identical. |
| D. | whose spelling is different but sound is similar. |
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| 5. | William Wordsworth’s lines: I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden daffodils form the rhyme scheme of |
| A. | aabb. |
| B. | abab. |
| C. | abba. |
| D. | abca. |
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| 6. | The use of a series of words, phrases, or sentences that have similar grammatical form is called |
| A. | enjambment. |
| B. | parallelism. |
| C. | simile. |
| D. | free verse. |
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| 7. | A metaphor is a figure of speech that |
| A. | gives human qualities to an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea. |
| B. | uses like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things. |
| C. | compares two different things by stating or implying that one thing is another. |
| D. | uses exaggeration for dramatic effect. |
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| 8. | Denise Levertov’s lines, “I who don’t know the / secret wrote / the line.” contain an example of a paradox. |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
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| 9. | Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is a lyric poem for all of the following reasons EXCEPT |
| A. | it has an implied theme. |
| B. | it expresses the speaker’s personal thoughts. |
| C. | it is short and musical. |
| D. | it emphasizes the speaker’s emotional experience. |
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| 10. | Click on the letter of the word that means about the same as the underlined word. After a long day of teaching students, the professor retreated to the solitude of her office. |
| A. | silence |
| B. | neatness |
| C. | beauty |
| D. | isolation |
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