English 1B/Holper
POETIC TERMS PRETEST
1) What is onomatopoeia?
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2) Poetry that usually is unrhymed and lacks a traditional metric presentation
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3) What is a stanza?
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two lines: _________________
three lines: ________________
four lines: _________________
4) What is internal rhyme?
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5) What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds called?
ex: With blade, with bloody blameful blade, he bravely broached his boiling bloody breast.
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6) What is taking animate or inanimate things and personifying them called?
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7) What is assonance?
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8) What is unrhymed iambic pentameter called?
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9) What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words or accented syllables called?
Ex: Emily Dickinson uses consonance in the following lines:
But if he asks where you are hid
Until tomorrow,--happy letter
Gesture, coquette, and shake your
head
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10) What does a sonnet consist of?
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11) Give examples of the following types of rhymes:
Exact:
Slant:
Identical:
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12) What is a combination of a stressed and unstressed syllables called?
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Two types of rising feet
˘΄ (about): ______________________
˘˘΄ (in a boat) ______________________
Two types of falling feet
΄ ˘ (double) ______________________
΄ ΄ ˘ (endlessly) ______________________
Non-stressed
˘ ˘ ______________________
13) What is meter?
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one: _____________________________
two: _____________________________
three: _____________________________
four: _____________________________
five: _____________________________
six: _____________________________
seven: _____________________________
14) What are the rhyming patterns at the end of lines called?
Ex.: ABAB etc.
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15) What is scansion?
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16) What is a poem that consists of six stanzas of six lines each, with a repeated pattern of lines, ending in a tercet?
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17) What is a villanelle?
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Scan the following lines for the foot/meter combination:
18)
Tell fortune of her blindness
Tell nature of decay
Tell friendship of unkindness
Tell justice of delay
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19)
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy.
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20)
Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill
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