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Poetry Term Practice HW

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9th - 12th Grade

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Poetry Term Practice HW
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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An indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work, (literary, biblical, and mythological).

Allusion

Illusion

Delusion

Conclusion

Answer explanation

The question asks for a term that refers to an indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, or object in history or in a literary work. The correct answer is 'Allusion'. An allusion is a figure of speech that references a person, place, thing, or event in the world, often in passing, without explicit identification.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following best describes the point of view the following poem is written in?

Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

1st person

2nd person

3rd person

4th person

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What literary device highlights the "s" sound (s, s, se, st) in line 1 of this example from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven: “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before”?

alliteration

assonance

consonance

onomatopoeia

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

the repetition of vowel sounds. Hear the mellow wedding bells. -"Bells" by Edgar Allan Poe

assonance

alliteration

consonance

onomatopoeia

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What satirical technique is being employed in this satire about the future?

Exaggeration

Irony

Parody

Understatement

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

He has no enemies but is bitterly disliked by his friends.

IRONY

SARCASM

HYPERBOLE

METAPHOR

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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What is the rhyme scheme for these lines from “If”?
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
 If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;

ABAB

AABB

ABBA

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