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1. Which poet, who seems be using iambic pentameter, bends the meter most?
A. Gerard Manley Hopkins
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Emma Lazarus
D. John Donne
2. What type of poem is "Death, Be Not Proud"?
A. Discursive
B. Descriptive
C. Narrative
D. Reflective
3. A tercet is a
A. complex rhyme scheme.
B. figure of speech.
C. literary genre.
D. three-line stanza.
4. Which one of the following lines is written in iambic pentameter?
A. "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"
B. "Not that the pines are darker there"
C. "When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me"
D. "And sorry I could not travel both"
5. In the poem "God's Grandeur," we find the words reck and rod. By analysis we can determine that the word rod probably comes from the Bible and means
A. God's power.
B. a tool of correction.
C. God's wrath.
D. a principle of ethics.
6. Beyond tone, a poet's attitude toward his or her subject reveals to us a poem's
A. structure.
B. subject.
C. theme.
D. diction.
7. In the poem "God's Grandeur," the phrase "nor can foot feel, being shod" means
A. humans are out of touch with nature.
B. the earth is home for humans.
C. God cures all pain.
D. the poet can sense God from head to toe.
8. In Donne's sonnet, what does the phrase "one short sleep past" mean?
A. Death is unavoidable.
B. Death comes sooner than expected.
C. Death is more permanent than sleep.
D. Death, like a nap, isn't permanent.
9. To paraphrase a poem means to
A. determine the rhyme scheme.
B. summarize its theme.
C. analyze the meter.
D. rewrite it in one's own words.
10. Which one of the following poems is written in free verse?
A. "There Is No Frigate Like a Book"
B. "Grass"
C. "God's Grandeur"
D. "Death, Be Not Proud"
11. The theme of Sandburg's poem "Grass" is
A. forgetfulness.
B. war.
C. peace.
D. freedom.
12. In "The New Colossus," the Statue of Liberty is compared to a/an
A. European queen.
B. immigrant.
C. mother.
D. door.
13. Which one of the following elements is characteristic of the poem "Richard Cory"?
A. Sonnet form
B. Surprise ending
C. Lack of rhyme scheme
D. Blank verse
14. Hopkins's use of "seared," "bleared," and "smeared" is an example of
A. assonance.
B. simile.
C. metaphor.
D. alliteration.
15. A villanelle is
A. a narrative poem written in blank verse.
B. a formal poem using extensive repetition.
C. a favorite technique of John Donne.
D. a type of complex sonnet.
16. In the last line of "God's Grandeur," we see an unusual and complicated use of
A. repetition.
B. alliteration.
C. consonance.
D. assonance.
17. In "Death, Be Not Proud," what two things does Donne say give pleasure?
A. Life and death
B. Nature and travel
C. God and salvation
D. Rest and sleep
18. One difference between the English sonnet and the Italian sonnet is its
A. subject matter.
B. rhyme scheme.
C. meter.
D. theme.
This question is based on the following poem.
How Doth the Little Crocodile
How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!
How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws!
19. What is the rhyme scheme in "How Doth the Little Crocodile"?
A. AABB CCDD
B. ABAB ABAB
C. ABAB CDCD
D. ABBA ABBA
20. The theme of the poem "Richard Cory" is that
A. Richard Cory was a victim of fate.
B. surface glitter may be fool's gold.
C. a person's inner reality is often hidden.
D. money can't buy love.