WORLD LITERATURE

Unit 4 (POETRY) Test

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Section 1: Matching (50 points)

1. poetry that is acted out by a character, usually in a play a. narrative poetry

2. poetry that tells a story b. lyric poetry

3. poetry that praises or describes c. dramatic poetry

4. the structure and style of a poem a. form

5. what is heard when a poem is read aloud b. sound

6. words and phrases with multiple layers of meaning c. figurative language

7. a three-line poem of Japanese origin that describes something symbolic in nature; the first line a. couplet

has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third line has 5 syllables b. tercet

8. a five-line poem, often humorous, with a distinct rhythm and rhyme scheme c. quatrain

9. a fourteen-line poem (three quatrains and a couplet) written in iambic pentameter d. sestet

10. a poem with nineteen lines (six tercets plus one quatrain), a refrain line that repeats throughout e. haiku

the poem, and only two rhymes f. limerick

11. a poem with thirty-nine lines total (six sestinas and one tercet); the words at the end of each line g. sonnet

in the first stanza reappear in a different order at the end of the lines in subsequent stanzas, and h. villanelle

all of the words appear in the middle or at the end of the final stanza i. sestina

12. a pair of rhyming lines j. blank verse

13. a poem or stanza with three lines k. free verse

14. a poem or stanza with four lines

15. a poem or stanza with six lines

16. a poem with any number of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter

17. a poem that does not follow any rules when it comes to form

18 words that sound the same but have different meanings, such as “flower” and “flour” a. caesura

19. a word that sounds the same as the object or action it names, like “buzz,” “tick-tock,” and “whisper” b. enjambment

20. the repetition of a grammatical construction c. alliteration

21. the repetition of consonant sounds (non-vowels) at the beginning of nearby words d. consonance

22. the repetition of consonant sounds (non-vowels) in the middle or at the end of nearby words e. assonance

23. the repetition of similar vowel sounds at the beginning of nearby words f. onomatopoeia

24. the repetition of identical sounds at the end of words g. homophone

25. words that rhyme at the end of a line h. parallelism

26. words that ryhyme in the middle of a line i. rhyme

27. when words rhyme exactly, like “jelly” and “belly” or “money” and “honey” j. end rhyme

28. when sound similar but do not rhyme exactly, like “eyes” and “ice” k. internal rhyme

29. a regular pattern of rhyming words, indicated by using a different letter of the alphabet for each new rhyme l. exact rhyme

30. the beat of a poem, based on the number of stressed and unstressed syllables m. slant rhyme

31. a group of two or three syllables n. rhyme scheme

32. a foot with one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable o. rhythm

33. a line in a poem with ten syllables divided into five iambs p. foot

34. a pause within a line of verse, indicated by a punctuation mark q. iamb

35. the absence of a punctuation mark at the end of a line of verse r. iambic pentameter

36. a play on words; a double entendre a. imagery

37. a comparison between two dissimilar things using “like” or “as” b. simile

38. a comparison between two dissimilar things without using “like” or “as” c. metaphor

39. the feeling of a poem d. personification

40. visually descriptive language that creates pictures of the poem in your mind e. oxymoron

41. a pair of words with contradictory meanings, like “jumbo shrimp” or “friendly enemy” f. hyperbole

42. a reference to a famous person, historical event, or work of literature g. pun

43. the combination of two senses at once, as when someone might say, “The cookies smell soft.” h. synaesthesia

44. a question not meant to be answered i. metonymy

45. the use of objects to represent ideas j. mood

46. the use of an associated word or object for that of the thing meant k. rhetorical question

47. giving humanlike characteristics to nonhuman things l. symbolism

48. an exaggeration m. allusion

49. downplaying the significance of something n. understatement

50. when a poet calls upon the Muse to inspire him/her o. invocation

Section 2: Poetry Analysis (40 points)

Poem for #1-2

Moonshine at midnight; 1. This poem is an example of a

Thirsty shades of green and brown

Bloom mercurial. A. couplet

B. quatrain

C. haiku

D. tanka

2. The repetition of /m/ sounds at the beginning of “moonshine,”

“midnight,” and “mercurial” is an example of

A. alliteration

B. allusion

C. assonance

D. consonance

Poem for #3-4

There was an old man in a tree

Who was horribly bored by a bee

When they said, "Does it buzz?"

He replied, "Yes, it does!

It's a regular brute of a bee!"

3. This poem is a

A. ode C. ballad

B. epic D. limerick

4. What is this poem’s rhyme scheme?

A. AABBA C. AAABB

B. ABABA D. ABCDC