Hi, I am doing a correspondence course and was wondering if the answers for my quiz were right, could you help please? My answers are identified by <>. I am aware that someone else has posted on this subject but posted wrong... I hope I did this correctly.

1. 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. quatrain.
B. octet.

C. couplet.<my answer>

D. sestet.

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

A. a metaphor.
B. a simile.<my answer>

C. a couplet.

D. alliteration.

3. 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's for all seasons.

C. she'll live on in his poem.<my answer>

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

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

A. I am a rock.
B. She eats like a bird.<my answer>

C. I'm as hungry as a wolf.

D. The breeze blew the branches back and forth.

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

A. simile.<my answer>
B. consonance.

C. repetition.

D. personification.

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

A. assonance.
B. consonance.

C. alliteration.<my answer>

D. metaphor.

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

A. discipline.
B. order.

C. hierarchy.

D. nature.<my answer>

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

A. Rachel
B. Alice

C. JoAnne<my answer>

D. Sally

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

A. trimeter.<my answer, but I really don't think this is right>
B. pentameter.

C. tetrameter.

D. dimeter.

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

A. People wanted a beat they could dance to.
B. They were written for the upper class.<my answer>

C. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way.

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

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

A. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"<my answer>
B. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

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

D. "The Long Voyage"

12. Emphasizing the importance of order, law, discipline, and tradition is typical of _______ literature.

A. Romantic
B. Classical<my answer>

C. discursive

D. dramatic

13. Which one of the following phrases is an example of consonance?

A. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be.<my answer>
B. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

C. Drink to me only with thine eyes

D. River birch and upland beech

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

A. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
B. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"

C. "The Long Voyage"

D. "Trees"<my answer p.97 of my text.>

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

A. Narrative
B. Discursive

C. Dramatic

D. Descriptive<my answer>

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

A. a simile.
B. a metaphor.<my answer>

C. alliteration.

D. consonance.

17. The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare' s sonnets is

A. AABB CCDD EEFF GG.
B. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

C. ABBA CDDC EFFE GG.<my answer>

D. ABCD ABCD ABCD GG.

18. Who are the "fools" mentioned in the poem "Trees"?

A. Poets
B. Gods<my answer>

C. Trees

D. Robins

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

A. consonance.
B. assonance.

C. alliteration.

D. rhyme.<my answer>

20. A definition of formal poetry is verse that

A. sticks to certain traditional patterns.<my answer>
B. has no rhyme scheme.

C. uses figurative language.

D. is written in blank verse.

*Again, thank you for your time to all who may answer my question. :)*

Susan

1. right

2. right
3. of those answers - right
4. nope - look at the word "like"
5. ( I don't know this poem)
6. right
7. right
8. right
9. a tree/ whose hun/ gry mouth/ is prest/
10. Remember poetry was not written at first... but memorized.
11. right
12. right
13.remember consonance is repetition of consonant sounds.
14.
15.right
16. again, look at the word like
17. check again
18.
19. "host", "golden" "daffodils" - check again
20.right

1. correct

2. correct
3. correct
4. incorrect
5. (can't tell without the whole work)
6. correct
7. correct
8. correct
9. incorrect - Count the syllables and then look up these terms at http://www.answers.com
10. incorrect
11. ??
12. correct
13. incorrect http://www.answers.com/consonance
14. ??
15. ??
16. incorrect http://www.answers.com
17. correct
18. ??
19. incorrect
20. correct

I'd have to look up each of those poems where there are ?? to see. I can get back to you one them in about two hours.

11. correct

14. correct

15. incorrect

18. incorrect; reread the next to last line.

4. wrong

5.wrong
9.wrong
13.wrong
15,16,17,18,19 all wrong i just took this test.

hokins use of seared bleared and smeared is an

a villanelle is

the form of the god's grandeur is that of

which one of the following poem is an english sonnet?

in death be not proud the speaker is addressing his words to?

need help with examination number 0077900