Abeka 10th Grade World Literature Unit 8

5 Written Questions

1. author who wrote dozens of plays, including "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet," and "Macbeth," as well as over a hundred sonnets; possibly the greatest writer of all time; author of "Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year"
2. author of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
3. a fourteen-line poem (usually written in iambic pentameter) with a definite pattern of two basic varieties, Italian or English
4. name of the optical art by Victor Vasarely contrasting red and blue squares and circles
5. American poet, playwright, and short story writer who wrote about Archy and Mehitabel

5 Matching Questions

1. sestet
2. figured poem (shaped verse)
3. quatrain
4. Matsuo Bash
5. John Keats

1. a one of the most promising English poets of the Romantic period who wrote poetry characterized by rich imagery and symbolism; wrote "On the Grasshopper and Cricket"
2. b term for a four-line stanza
3. c poem that is constructed in such a way that the printed shape suggests the topic of the poem
4. d Japanese poet who is considered to be the greatest master of haiku; abandoned warfare to write poetry and helped develop the art of haiku
5. e term for a six-line stanza

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dutch painter of "Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue"; known for the precision of his geometrical arrangements
   1. Don Marquis
   2. limerick
   3. Piet Mondrian
   4. fixed form
2. term for an eight-line stanza
   1. sestet
   2. octave (octet)
   3. septet
   4. tercet
3. sonnet made up of three quatrains and a couplet; often presents three examples or ideas in the quatrains, and a conclusion in the couplets
   1. William Shakespeare
   2. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
   3. Victor Vasarely
   4. English or Shakespearean sonnet
4. poem by Robert Frost that begins with these lines:
   "Whose woods these are I think I know.
   His house is in the village, though..."
   1. "Alom"
   2. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
   3. Italian or Petrarchan sonnet
   4. "Composition with Red, Yellow, and Blue"
5. form of poetry written with groups of lines having the same metrical pattern repeated throughout
   1. fixed form
   2. stanza
   3. continuous form
   4. stanza form

5 True/False Questions

1. limerick → term for a three-line stanza

   True        False

2. septet → term for a six-line stanza

   True        False

3. continuous form → form of poetry with no grouping of lines or breaks

   True        False

4. couplet → term for a seven-line stanza

   True        False

5. quintrain → term for a four-line stanza

   True        False