What is the poetic term for when two words LOOK like they should rhyme but do not, like “bough” and “through?”. review question help – Excelsior Writers | excelsiorwriters.com

What is the poetic term for when two words LOOK like they should rhyme but do not, like “bough” and “through?”. review question help – Excelsior Writers | excelsiorwriters.com
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QUESTION 1

  1. What is the poetic term for when two words LOOK like they should rhyme but do not, like “bough” and “through?”
    Eye rhyme
    Slant rhyme
    Alliteration
    Concrete poetry

5 points

QUESTION 2

  1. What layer of poetry emphasizes the feelings connected to words, especially their connotations?
    Figurative Layer
    Sensuous Layer
    Emotional Layer
    Surface/Intellectual Layer

5 points

QUESTION 3

  1. What is the main purpose of poetry?
    Poetry shares an EXPERIENCE
    Poetry is meant to be SEDUCTIVE
    A love of poetry reveals INTELLIGENCE
    Poetry offers INFORMATION

5 points

QUESTION 4

  1. TRUE or FALSE: Poetic experiences should always be happy.





5 points

QUESTION 5

  1. What is the most common meter used in English poetry?
    Trochaic trimeter
    Anapestic heptameter
    Iambic pentameter
    Dactyllic monometer

5 points

QUESTION 6

  1. What is the term for a poetic reference to history or previous literature?
    Hyperbole
    Metaphor
    Allusion
    Personification

5 points

QUESTION 7

  1. The poem “Shakespearean Sonnet,” by R. S. Gwynn, most uses what poetic technique?

    Shakespearean Sonnet
    With a first line taken from the tv listings

    A man is haunted by his father’s ghost.
    Boy meets girl while feuding families fight.
    A Scottish king is murdered by his host.
    Two couples get lost on a summer night.
    A hunchback murders all who block his way.
    A ruler’s rivals plot against his life.
    A fat man and a prince make rebels pay.
    A noble Moor has doubts about his wife.
    An English king decides to conquer France.
    A duke learns that his best friend is a she.
    A forest sets the scene for this romance.
    An old man and his daughters disagree.
    A Roman leader makes a big mistake.
    A sexy queen is bitten by a snake.

    Allusion
    Refrain
    Imagery
    Personification

5 points

QUESTION 8

  1. What poem did we read in class as an example of imagery, in which a lover crosses the water to make secret rendezvous?
    “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” by John Keats
    “Meeting at Night” by Robert Browning
    “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley
    “The Lama” by Ogden Nash

5 points

QUESTION 9

  1. What is the term for the figure of speech that compares two unlike things, using the terms “like” or “as?”
    Imagery
    Synecdoche
    Simile
    Personification

5 points

QUESTION 10

  1. What is the poetic term for a repetition of consonant sounds, such as in tongue twisters?
    Alliteration
    Slant rhyme
    Eye rhyme
    Meter

5 points

QUESTION 11

  1. What is the poetic term for when a poet gives human characteristics to an animal, a concept, or inanimate object?
    Metaphor
    Personification
    Allusion
    Hyperbole

5 points

QUESTION 12

  1. Which layer of poetry emphasizes the imagination, and is prompted especially by metaphors, similes, personification, etc.
    Emotional Layer
    Sensuous Layer
    Surface/Intellectual Layer
    Figurative Layer

5 points

QUESTION 13

  1. What layer of poetry is about what words mean — the denotation / dictionary definitions of words?
    Imaginative/Figurative Layer
    Emotional Layer
    Surface / Intellectual Layer
    Sensuous Layer

5 points

QUESTION 14

  1. What is the term for the emotional overtones a word carries?
    Synecdoche
    Simile
    Imagery
    Connotation

5 points

QUESTION 15

  1. What is the term for the poet’s and speaker’s word choice, whether that word choice is formal, informal, or regionally influenced?
    Denotation
    Imagery
    Diction
    Connotation

5 points

QUESTION 16

  1. What is the term for poetic overexaggeration?
    Hyperbole
    Allusion
    Metaphor
    Personification

5 points

QUESTION 17

  1. What is the term for the poetic technique that tries to capture the sense experience through words?
    Connotation
    Imagery
    Synecdoche
    Simile

5 points

QUESTION 18

  1. The first two lines of Robert Burns’ “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” use what figure of speech?

    My love is like a red, red rose
    That’s newly sprung in June :
    My love is like the melody
    That’s sweetly played in tune.
    Apostrophe
    Personification
    Simile
    Hyperbole

5 points

QUESTION 19

  1. What layer of poetry is most dependent on imagery?
    Emotional layer
    Surface/Intellectual layer
    Figurative layer
    Sensuous layer

5 points

QUESTION 20

  1. The poem “Secretary Chant” by Marge Pierce most obviously uses what poetic technique?The Secretary Chant
    By: Marge Piercy    My hips are a desk
    From my ears hang
    chains of paper clips.
    Rubber bands form my hair.
    My breasts are wells of mimeograph ink,
    My feet bear casters.
    Buzz. Click.
    My head is a badly organized file.
    My head is a switchboard
    where crossed lines crackle.
    Press my fingers
    and in my eyes appear
    credit and debit.
    Zing. Tinkle.
    My navel is a reject button.
    From my mouth issue canceled reams.
    Swollen, heavy, rectangular
    I am about to be delivered
    of a baby
    Xerox machine.
    File me under W
    because I wonce
    was
    a woman.
    Connotation
    Metaphor
    Allusion
    Imagery

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