Mr. Turner's English



English 11

J. Turner

Poetry Terms Test

For questions 1 to 15 choose the term that best identifies the technique highlighted.

For questions 1 to 5, identify the technique highlighted in the line by selecting from the following answers. Each answer is used once.

(A) simile (B) metaphor (C) personification

(D) hyperbole (E) extended or sustained metaphor

1. The starch sloshing in my stomach / like wet cement

2. And now I’ve made by own hard bed / inside this prison of words unsaid

3. I wanna hear a poem where ideas kiss similes so deeply that metaphors get jealous

4. My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow.

5. Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. / It's had tacks in it, / And splinters, / And boards torn up, / And places with no carpet on the floor -- / Bare. / But all the time / I'se been a-climbin' on,

For questions 6 to 10, identify the technique highlighted in the line by selecting from the following answers. Each answer is used once.

(A) slant rhyme (B) alliteration (C) consonance

(D) assonance (E) feminine rhyme

6. The chimes of his keys will chatter in halls until the dawn’s cheeks blush.

7. Some vague flaw vexing an exec’s view—an amendable warp / In her office window’s plexiglass—was rendered void by torch.

8. I wanna hear a poem that attacks the status quo / that attracts the claps of the cats with the fattest flows / that makes the crowd pass the hat and pack my cap with a stack of dough

9. The chimes of his keys will chatter in halls until the dawn’s cheeks blush. / His nametag will be accurate, his hounds on their leash robust.

10. Spies who call themselves her betters / find and take away her letters.

For questions 11 to 15, identify the technique highlighted in the line by selecting from the following answers. Each answer is used once.

(A) pun (B) allusion (C) verbal irony

(D) paradox (E) parallelism

11. Last night I dreamt / I was little again and / I could hear back then, / but the silence in my house / was deafening

12. I wanna follow the footsteps of Che and hear the truth about the day the CIA killed Lumumba

13. Thanks for a nation to despoil and poison / Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind his own business / Thanks for a nation of finks

14. Prematurely post-traumatic / and I have a love child who sends me hate mail

15. I bought a microwave at a mini mall / I bought a mini van in a mega store

16. Which of the following was NOT part of Terry Eagleton’s definition of poetry.

A) the writer decides where the line breaks go

B) it is verbally inventive

C) it is the expression of a person’s emotions

D) it is about human values

E) it is fictional

17. Which of the following defines “lyric” poetry?

A) it is the expression of an individuals feelings on a particular topic

B) it is a story told in verse

C) it is a kind of competition

D) it is the words of a song

E) it is the imaginary speech of an implied character, in poetry

18. Which of the following defines “dramatic monologue”?

A) it is the expression of an individuals feelings on a particular topic

B) it is a story told in verse

C) it is a kind of competition

D) it is the words of a song

E) it is the imaginary speech of an implied character, in poetry

19. Which of the following is not a rule of poetry slams?

A) poems must be 3 minutes or less

B) no props allowed

C) no musical instruments

D) no costumes

E) it must rhyme

20. Which of the following does not describe tone?

A) Angrily

B) Shrill

C) Throwing arms out

D) With a slightly hard edge

E) Matter-of-fact

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