ENGL 102 Quiz Poetry Unit
ENGL 102 Quiz: Poetry Unit
Covers the Learn material from Module 4: Week 4 — Module 5: Week 5.
- The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is dramatic irony in the sense that
- The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “green plain” (line 15) represents
- The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open’d the cons and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents
- The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “cons of black” (line 12) represent
- The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is an ironic expression of the narrator’s
- Lines 5-8 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth in the west, / Which by and by black night doth take away, / Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
- Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” These lines emphasize
- Line 7 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “Thy root is ever in its grave.” The word “grave” is metonymy for
- The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” The crumbling statue, “decay,” “colossal wreck,” “boundless and bare /…lone and level sands” all communicate thematic ideas of
- Lines 1-4 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God / It will ame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil / Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?” The word “rod” is a metaphor or symbol for
- Lines 11-12 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—” The images of sunset and sunrise symbolize God’s
- Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.”
In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to - Line 3 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight.” The word “fall” means _
- The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” One can infer from these lines that the subject was once
- In the poem “Virtue” by George Herbert, the line “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight” exemplies
- The first line of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads, “I met a traveler from an antique land.” Antique here best means:
- Lines 7-8 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil / Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.” “The soil / Is bare” because
- Lines 9-12 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the glowing of such re, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, / As the death-bed whereon it must expire, / Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
- The phrase “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (line 8) in William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” is a metaphor for
- Lines 11-14 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—/ Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” The word “bent” in line 13 means
- In order to understand meter, divide each line into feet and scan the feet.
- A metaphor is a comparison using “like” or “as.”
- “Journey of the Magi” maintains that Christ’s birth was a “hard and bitter agony.”
- Consonance is the repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words.
- “Nothing beside remains” is a significant phrase in what poem?
- Which poem focuses on a husband’s jealousy?
- William Blake wrote “The Chimney Sweeper.”
- “The Road Not Taken” followed upon the Industrial Revolution which ushered in major changes in thought.
- An octave is a ten-line stanza or the first ten lives of a sonnet.
- “In the forests of the night, /What immortal hand or eye/ Dare frame thy fearful symmetry” is from what poem?
- The most significant literary device in the poem, “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” is metaphor.
- A poem’s sound structure is its rhyme scheme and systematic and repeated use of similar sounds.
- Emily Dickinson authored the poem, “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves.”
- Image is a verbal representation of a series of experiences as of sight, touch, smell, and hearing.
- Some poems are organized in a continuous form without stanzas.
- The poem “Virtue” was written by
- Which poem mentions “a Page / Of prancing Poetry”?
- “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” is developed through a series of metaphors for snow.
- “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God” thematizes the power of ____ to save.
- The poem, “Ulysses,” was written by William Blake.
- “Life has loveliness to sell” is an excerpt from “Last Duchess.”
- According to the lecture notes, the allusion in the poem “Out, Out – – ” is from
- The author of “Ode to a Nightingale” is Frost.
- Irony of situation results from the incongruity between the actual and the anticipated circumstance in “Ozymandias.”
- The predominant theme of “The Road Not Taken” is choices.
- According to the lecture notes, the tropes in _____ relate to the childhood of the speaker.
- The premise of “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God” is that
- H. Riken proposes six tools or substructures of the art form, poem. These include paraphrase, rational, image, metric, sound, and syntax.
- Byron defined poetry as “The lava of imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.”
- The phrase “frigate like a book” is an example of a metaphor.
Set 2
- In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that
- The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “coffins of black” (line 12) represent
- The dream in lines 11-20 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open’d the coffins and set them all free” (line 13-14) represents
- The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is dramatic irony in the sense that
- The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 23-24, the child narrator writes that “Tho’ the morning was cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is an ironic expression of the narrator’s
- Lines 9-12 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the glowing of such fire, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, / As the death-bed whereon it must expire, / Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
- Lines 11-12 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—” The images of sunset and sunrise symbolize God’s
- Lines 7-8 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil / Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.” “The soil / Is bare” because
- Lines 11-14 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: “And though the last lights off the black West went / Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs—/ Because the Holy Ghost over the bent / World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.” The word “bent” in line 13 means
- In the poem “Virtue” by George Herbert, the line “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight” exemplifies
- The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” The crumbling statue, “decay,” “colossal wreck,” “boundless and bare /…lone and level sands” all communicate thematic ideas of
- Lines 5-8 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “In me thou seest the twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth in the west, / Which by and by black night doth take away, / Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
- Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” These lines emphasize
- The last 5 lines of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” / Nothing beside remains. Round the decay / Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare / The lone and level sands stretch far away.” One can infer from these lines that the subject was once
- The first line of “Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley reads, “I met a traveler from an antique land.” Antique here best means:
- Line 7 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “Thy root is ever in its grave.” The word “grave” is metonymy for
- Lines 1-4 of William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” reads: “That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang / Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, / Bare ruin’d choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.” In these lines, the speaker metaphorically compares himself to
- The phrase “Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest” (line 8) in William Shakespeare’s “That Time of Year…” is a metaphor for
- Line 3 of George Herbert’s “Virtue” reads: “The dew shall weep thy fall tonight.” The word “fall” means
- Lines 1-4 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil / Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?” The word “rod” is a metaphor or symbol for
- According to the lecture notes, the tropes in _____ relate to the childhood of the speaker.
- One possible theme of _____ is that responsibilities are more important than the beauties of life.
- In “Death Be Not Proud,” Death is personified.
- The three major types of irony are verbal irony, dramatic irony, and irony of situation.
- In the poem, “Ozymandias,” the main character, Ozymandias, is depicted as a proud servant.
- The poem, “God’s Grandeur,” was written by Emily Dickinson.
- The term used for words in a rhyming pattern that have some kind of sound correspondence but are not perfect rhymes (example push- rush).
- An octave is a ten-line stanza or the first ten lives of a sonnet.
- “In the forests of the night, /What immortal hand or eye/ Dare frame thy fearful symmetry” is from what poem?
- Lyrical poetry differs from other writing in the fairly small emotional response that it generates.
- Edwin Arlington Robinson authored the poem “God’s Grandeur.”
- A poem may be unified by a theme, one of the tropes, or by
- Shakespeare’s sonnet that deals with the autumn years of his life is entitled
- “Chimney Sweeper” uses a dichotomy between the horror that the children experience and what is said.
- Which famous critic said that it was vital to know the Bible if one is to understand literature.
- Hopkins’ poem, “Spring,” uses sensory perceptions to underscore the theme of the importance of innocence.
- “It Sifts from Leaden Sieves” is developed through a series of metaphors for snow.
- Examples of rhyme are masculine, feminine, neutral, and end.
- A Shakespearean Sonnet has this rhyme scheme: ACAC, BDBD, EFEF, GG.
- In this sonnet, _____, the octave introduces a series of images, and the sestet presents two significant symbols.
- Personification is the imaginative identification of two dissimilar objects or ideas.
- A paradoxical statement is a figure of speech in which an apparently self- contradictory statement is nevertheless found to be true.
- Match the following definitions with the appropriate poetic device.
- Irony is the situation or use of language involving some kind of incongruity or discrepancy.
- A poem’s sound structure is its rhyme scheme and systematic and repeated use of similar sounds.
- Another name for Petrarchan sonnet is
- The term used for a rhyme in which one or both of the rhyme-words occurs within the line is
- “Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God” thematizes the power of ____ to save.
- Since “all truth is God’s truth,” we may freely go to poetry to find truth instead of using God’s revelation to us in the Bible to judge poetry.
- The metrical structure of a poem is its rhythm pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.