5 Written Questions

1. direct or explicit comparison between two unrelated things indicating a likeness. Uses LIKE or AS to indicate comparison.
2. repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse (similar to alliteration, but doesn't have to be the inital letter)
3. giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals
4. Fourteen-line stanza (three quatrains + couplet.) Rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
5. substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated with it. (Pay tribute to the "crown.")

5 Matching Questions

1. Rhyme
2. Blank verse
3. Anapest
4. Limeric
5. Dactyl

1. a Lines of iambic pentameter without end rhyme
2. b Five-line nonsense poem, aabba, anapestic meter
3. c similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words. (True rhyme: identical-sounding STRESSED syllables, the letters preceeding the vowels must be different.)
4. d three syllables with the stress on the last syllable (with the SHEEP in the FOLD and the COWS in their STALLS)
5. e three syllables with the stress on the first syllable (LOVE again, SONG again, NEST again, YOUNG again.)

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Verse with end rhyme, usually with a regular meter
   1. Rhyme scheme
   2. Free verse
   3. Rhymed verse
   4. Blank verse
2. Couplet (2)
   Triplet (3)
   Quatrain (4)
   Quintet (5)
   Sestet (6)
   Septet (7)
   Octave (8)
   1. Stanza
   2. Kinds of stanzas
   3. Ballad Stanza
   4. Spenserian stanza
3. lines do not have regular meter, do not contain rhyme
   1. Blank verse
   2. Rhymed verse
   3. Trochee
   4. Free verse
4. reiterating of a word or phrase within the poem
   1. Repetition
   2. Metaphor
   3. Hyperbole
   4. Alliteration
5. word or image that signifies something other than what is literally represented
   1. Symbol
   2. Simile
   3. Rhyme
   4. Iamb

5 True/False Questions

1. Assonance → repetition of consonant sounds within a line of verse (similar to alliteration, but doesn't have to be the inital letter)

   True        False

2. Spondee → Fourteen-line stanza form consisting of iambic pentameter lines (includes Petrarchan and Shakespearean types)

   True        False

3. Kinds of metrical lines → Couplet (2)
   Triplet (3)
   Quatrain (4)
   Quintet (5)
   Sestet (6)
   Septet (7)
   Octave (8)

   True        False

4. Antithesis → understatement -- saying the opposite of what one means or making an affirmation by stating the fact in the negative.

   True        False

5. Heroic couplet → two successive rhyming verses that contain a complet thought within two lines (usually in iambic pentameter)

   True        False