, Which meter is used in these lines from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Iambic
pentameter.
Which sound device is used in the first and third lines of "Birches" by Robert Frost?
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Alliteration.
Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two of these poetic passages use alliteration for effect? - CORRECT ANSWERS-
It was a spring that never came;
But we have lived enough to know
That what we never have, remains;
It is the things we have that go.
(Sara Teasdale, "Wisdom").
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
(Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain")
Select the correct answer.
Which statement best defines imagery as it is used in poetry? - CORRECT ANSWERS-
Imagery represents objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to the
physical senses.
A Poem of Changgan:
Which statement best summarizes the theme of "A Poem of Changgan"? - CORRECT
ANSWERS-True love changes with the changing seasons.
Which pattern of meter is used in this excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the
feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand,
'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand
dropt he. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Alternating tetrameter and trimeter.
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Iambic
pentameter.
Which sound device is used in the first and third lines of "Birches" by Robert Frost?
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Alliteration.
Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two of these poetic passages use alliteration for effect? - CORRECT ANSWERS-
It was a spring that never came;
But we have lived enough to know
That what we never have, remains;
It is the things we have that go.
(Sara Teasdale, "Wisdom").
In a solitude of the sea
Deep from human vanity,
And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she.
(Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain")
Select the correct answer.
Which statement best defines imagery as it is used in poetry? - CORRECT ANSWERS-
Imagery represents objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to the
physical senses.
A Poem of Changgan:
Which statement best summarizes the theme of "A Poem of Changgan"? - CORRECT
ANSWERS-True love changes with the changing seasons.
Which pattern of meter is used in this excerpt from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the
feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand,
'There was a ship,' quoth he. 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' Eftsoons his hand
dropt he. - CORRECT ANSWERS-Alternating tetrameter and trimeter.
