Posted by Susan on Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 3:56pm.
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 dont 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
- Literature-Poetry - GuruBlue, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 4:13pm
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
- Literature-Poetry - Writeacher, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 4:23pm
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.
- Literature-Poetry - Writeacher, Wednesday, May 28, 2008 at 5:36pm
11. correct
14. correct
15. incorrect
18. incorrect; reread the next to last line.
- Literature-Poetry - teenie, Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 8:59am
4. wrong
5.wrong
9.wrong
13.wrong
15,16,17,18,19 all wrong i just took this test.
- Literature-Poetry - Darcelle, Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 10:58am
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- Literature-Poetry - Anonymous, Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 11:36am
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a villanelle is
- Literature-Poetry - Anonymous, Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 11:37am
the form of the god's grandeur is that of
- Literature-Poetry - Anonymous, Sunday, August 10, 2008 at 12:03pm
which one of the following poem is an english sonnet?
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- cesbluit femic - cesbluit femic, Saturday, January 17, 2009 at 1:56am
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- Literature-Poetry - Ashley, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 10:10pm
Here are the correct answers. I just took the test. 5/12/09.
1. C
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. C
9. C
10. D
11. A
12. B
13. D
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. B
18. A
19. B
20. A
- Literature-Poetry - Anonymous, Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 5:19pm
Ashley's answers are all right. Thanks! =)
- Literature-Poetry - Samantha, Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 10:55am
All of Ashley's answers are right.
- Literature-Poetry - shealean, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 at 8:36am
Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" is an example of which type of poem
- Literature-Poetry - poetry part 1, Friday, October 22, 2010 at 5:02pm
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- Literature-Poetry - Anita, Friday, November 5, 2010 at 1:45pm
poetry, part2
hopkins's use of seared bleared and smeared is an example of
- Literature-Poetry - Statia, Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8:03pm
I just took the test and ashley is absolutely correct. 100% I am glad I have this grade because tha world history exam killed my GPA average
- Literature-Poetry - Student, Friday, August 5, 2011 at 12:54am
Ashley's answers are wrong I used them and got a really really low score. Only 6 answers were right. Last time I use this to double check my answers, if I would of stuck with my original answers I might have passed but I thought I was wrong cause everyone said Ashley's answers were 100% correct. DO NOT TRUST ANYONE ELSE SAYING ASHLEY'S ANSWERS ARE CORRECT!!!
- Literature-Poetry - flor b, Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at 8:54pm
1c-2b-3c-4a-5c-6c-7d-8c-9c-10d-11a-12b-13d- 14d-15b-16a-17b-18a-19a-20a
- Literature-Poetry - cOuNtRy GiRl, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 3:56pm
CORRECT ANSWERS!! ARE :
1. C
2. B
3. C
4. A
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. C
9. C
10 D
11. A
12. B
13. D
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. B
18. A
19. B
20. A
- Literature-Poetry - katelynn, Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at 1:02pm
yupp, thats all correct.(:
100% Babyy!!<3
- Literature-Poetry - Mariah, Monday, January 16, 2012 at 6:30pm
Ashley is right! And so is Country girl! 100% the only one i missed was 5 and thats because I accidentally put A instead of C
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