CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 2023/2024

The number of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry is called... - Answer-meter What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and a definite meter? - Answer- blank verse How are blank verse and free verse different? - Answer-blank verse has a defined meter, while free verse doesn't How many total syllables do you find in a line of iambic pentameter? - Answer-10 The pattern of five sets of unstressed/stressed iambs is called... - Answer-iambic pentameter Who made free verse popular among American poets? - Answer-Walt Whitman What category of poetry is based on unrhymed lines and lack of a regular meter? - Answer-free verse Lisa, a high school student, writes a set of lines with no set rhyme scheme and a defined meter. Is this a poem? Why or why not? - Answer-Yes, its a blank verse poem, because it has no set rhyme scheme but a defined meter. Using similar grammatical constructions to create a poetic effect is known as... - Answer-parallelism What do we call ordinary or spoken word? - Answer-prose Which kinds of poems focus on romance? - Answer-lay (focuses on a romance and often includes the supernatural and medieval chivalry. Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale is an example of lay poetry.) How are ballads different from other narrative poems? - Answer-They are intended to be snug. (Ballads are more musical in nature and often have a sing-song quality. Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee is a ballad.) Why do poets invoke the muses? - Answer-to ask for inspiration to create a worthwhile poem How was Lord Tennyson's idyll, Idyll's of the king, different from previous idylls? - Answer-It did not have a pastoral theme (Idylls were traditionally pastoral poems, focusing on scenery.) The description, sailing across the wine-dark sea is an example of what poetic device? - Answer-epithet (which describes a person, place or thing in a way to bring out characteristics in the object being described) Prose (is not poetry) - Answer-prose is what we write and speak most of the time in our everyday intercourse: unmetered, unrhymed language Satire - Answ