Please answer the following questions to the best of your ...



Please answer the following questions to the best of your ability. You may work on this sheet with a partner or choose to work on it alone. Although this may seem challenging, remember this is not a quiz! Instead, this is a diagnostic assignment to gauge how familiar you are with poetry.

1. What is the difference between figurative language and literal language? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. What is a symbol? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. Over stating a feeling or situation is an example of :

a. Similie

b. Metaphor

c. Hyperbole

4. The words, “Stark stones caressed by mist,” are an example of

a. Assonance

b. Consonance

5. Define simile: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. Define metaphor: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

7. What distinguishes internal rhyme from end rhyme? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

8. What is the rhyme scheme in the following selection?

Let America be America again.

Let it be the dream it used to be.

Let it be the pioneer on the plain

Seeking a home where he himself is free.

[…]

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--

Let it be that great strong land of love

Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

That any man be crushed by one above.

“Let America Be America Again” –Langston Hughes

9. The word “snap,” when used to describe the sound a whip makes, is an example of:

a. Alliteration

b. Onomatopoeia

c. Consonance

Questions 10-13 refer to the following poem

“To Autumn” by William Blake:

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd

With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit

Beneath my shady roof; there thou may'st rest,

And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe,

And all the daughters of the year shall dance!

Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers.

'The narrow bud opens her beauties to

The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;

Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and

Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve,

Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing,

And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head.

'The spirits of the air live in the smells

Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round

The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.'

Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat,

Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak

Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.

10. How many stanzas does this poem contain? ______________

11. What is the rhyme scheme? ___________________________

12. What evidence supports the claim that autumn is being personified? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

13. What image does image Blake finish the poem with? (Hint: read the last three lines).

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14. What is a quatrain? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Name: ______________________________

Date: ____________________

Period: ___________________

A. ABAC DEED

B. ABAB CDCD

C. ABBA CDDC

D. AAAA BBBB

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