Let me not to the marriage of true minds

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1. The way Cowley uses the phrase "my own country" is an example of

A. consonance.

B. repetition.

C. simile.

D. personification.

2. Which one of the following words is an iamb?

A. Alice

B. Sally

C. Rachel

D. JoAnne

3. During the Romantic period, poets placed an emphasis on

A. order.

B. hierarchy.

C. nature.

D. discipline.

4. Study the following lines:

If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

These lines are an example of a/an

A. sestet.

B. couplet.

C. quatrain.

D. octet.

5. "Foam brightens like the dogwood now" is an example of

A. consonance.

B. alliteration.

C. a simile.

D. a metaphor.

6. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" is an example of which type of poem?

A. Discursive

B. Descriptive

C. Dramatic

D. Narrative

7. Which of these lines contains a metaphor?

A. You are like a sun to me.

B. She offered him a hundred-watt smile.

C. Now is your final hour.

D. Like unto death was her countenance.

8. The line "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest" is an example of iambic

A. tetrameter.

B. pentameter.

C. trimeter.

D. dimeter.

9. The final two lines of Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" promises the subject of his sonnet

A. an endless summer.

B. immortality.

C. unfading youth.

D. undying devotion.

10. What is the most probable reason that rhyme and repetition first found their ways into poems?

A. The poems were easier to remember and pass on.

B. They were written for the upper class.

C. People wanted a beat they could dance to.

D. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way.

11. Notable poets have attempted to define poetry. Among these efforts, the idea that poetry is an ancient technology came from

A. Maya Angelou.

B. Robert Frost.

C. Robert Pinsky.

D. Billy Collins.

12. The line "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is an example of

A. a metaphor.

B. a simile.

C. alliteration.

D. a couplet.

13. The repeated use of the "o" sound in "A host, of golden daffodils" is called

A. assonance.

B. consonance.

C. alliteration.

D. rhyme.

14. Which one of the poems you've read has the rhyme scheme AA BB CC . . . ?

A. "The Long Voyage"

B. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

C. "Trees"

D. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

15. In "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" Shakespeare claims that the object of his sonnet will be immortal because

A. he'll always love her.

B. she'll live on in his poem.

C. she's like the summer's day.

D. she's for all seasons.

16. Which one of the following sentences is an example of a metaphor?

A. She eats like a bird.

B. I'm as hungry as a wolf.

C. I am a rock.

D. The breeze blew the branches back and forth.

17. The phrase "mid-May" is an example of

A. consonance.

B. metaphor.

C. assonance.

D. alliteration.

18. The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare' s sonnets is

A. ABBA CDDC EFFE GG.

B. ABCD ABCD ABCD GG.

C. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

D. AABB CCDD EEFF GG.

19. Which line best illustrates alliteration?

A. Cluck and pluck gave Hattie luck

B. And sings a solitary song

C. Precision slices narrow corridors of contentment

D. Thus Henry wrested gain from despair

20. Which one of the poems you've read uses the words floats, fluttering, and dancing?

A. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"

B. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

C. "The Long Voyage"

D. "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"

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