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Which of the following describes iambic pentameter?
a A 3-syllable foot occurring five times in a line.
b A 2-syllable foot occurring four times in a line.
c A 3-syllable foot occurring four times in a line.
d A 2-syllable foot occurring five times in a line. - ✔✔d A 2-syllable foot
occurring five times in a line.
Geoffrey Chaucer authored which of the following Medieval works?
a Beowulf
b The Canterbury Tales
c The Song of Roland
d Lancelot - ✔✔b The Canterbury Tales
Which of the following ancient texts both featured an account of the
creation of man and woman and the story of a worldwide flood?
a The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Book of the Dead
b The Book of the Dead and the Torah
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c The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Torah
d The Iliad and the Book of the Dead - ✔✔c The Epic of Gilgamesh and the
Torah
Which of the following describes a 14-line poem with a rhyming couplet at
the end?
a Lyric
b Sonnet
c Ode
d Elegy - ✔✔b Sonnet
A Woman singing against orchestral background is an example of a(n)
__________________.
Rondo
Nocturne
Fugue
Aria - ✔✔Aria
Consider this stanza of poetry from Robert Burns ("A Red, Red Rose"):
O, my luve's like a red, red rose
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That's newly sprung in June.
O, my luve is like the melodie
That's sweetly played in tune.
Which of the following strategies has Burns used in the stanza?
a Simile
b Metaphor
c Synecdoche
d Metonymy - ✔✔a Simile
If a poet were concerned about syntax, the poet would pay attention to
which of the following?
a Extravagant language
b Symbolic language
c Word order
d The sounds of consonants - ✔✔c Word order
Consider the following passage:
O! beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-ey'd monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on.