Mears English Exam Study Guide- Poetry
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wsorrell on May 14, 2009
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English has been rough this year if ya ask me so have fun studying. i don't think i can finish it all today so i'll finish the rest by sunday night at the latest. THE LETTERS IN PARENTHES BESIDE THE QUESTION ARE THE ACRONYM FOR THE POEM- ex. (iwlaac) is "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud&q (see more)
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Coach Carver History 9-Briarwood
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 stars | to what does the speaker compair the host of daffodils? (IWLAAC) |
| descriptive language | poets help readers experience sensory imagery by using... (iwlaac) |
| abab | what is the rhyme scheme of this line- "I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o'er vales and hills,/When all at once i saw a crowd,/A host, of golden daffodils." |
| sight | to which of your senses does this appeal (iwlaac)- "they stretched in never-ending line/Along the margin of a bay:/...tossing their heads in sprightly dance" |
| a knowledge of flowers and lakes | what is the wealth the speaker believes the daffodils have brought to him? (iwlaac) |
| What happens when a dream isn't realized? | paraphrase- "What happens to a dream deferred?" (dd) |
| a life w/o dreams is no life at all | theme of "dreams" |
| personification | "he watches from his mountain walls" is an example of what kind of figurative lang.? (the eagle) |
| comes to people whether they seek it or not | dickinson implies that hope... (hittwf) |
| metaphor | "life is a broken winged bird" is what kind of fig. lang.? (dreams) |
| certain peculiar (long one-syllabled) words | in blackberry eating, what does the poet compare the ripe berries that fall "unbidden to his tongue"? |
| the description creates a blackberry-like image | why does the poet in "blackberry eating" choose to describe words as "manylettered, one-sylllabled lumps"? |
| and all that spells their living in destress | which of the following phrases from "Memory" doesn't contain vivid imagery? |
| she respected her mother | what does this line from "woman's work" reveal about the speaker's attitude toward her mother?- "her woman's work was nothing less than art." |
| became.../a woman working at home on her art | this passage from "woman's work" creates an image of the speaker assuming the mother's role |
| motherhood | theme of "Meciendo" expressed briefly |
| sight and feeling | in "eulogy for a hermit crab" the image in the line "in a tangle of blinding spume and spray" appeals to what 2 senses? |
| the difficulties of life never end | the speaker in "uphill" learns that "the road winds uphill all the way". what does that mean in the context of the poem? |
| the pattern of alternating rhymes links the questions and answers | how does the rhyme pattern in "uphill" affect the poem's meaning? |
| contrast levels of activity | the purpose of dividing "summer" into 2 separate stanzas is to... |
| imitate the sound of several types of bells | poe's primary purpose in "the bells" is to... |
| onomatopoeia | in "the bells", the line "how they clang and clash and roar!" uses the musical device of... |
| life is meant to include both good and bad experiences | which of the following sent. best summarizes the central idea of Ecc. 3:1-8? |
| rhythm | listening as you read aloud Ecc. 3:1-8 revelas that the dominant sound device is... |
| grieving man | poe's "the raven" is primarily about a... |
| whether the speaker will meet Lenore after he dies | what is the speaker trying to find out from the raven in "the raven?" |
| dramatic monologue | shakespeare's "the seven ages of man" is a....... |
| the lover is so obsessed with the love that he can write and entire poem about the most unimportant features of his beloved's face | what does shakespeare mean when he says the lover writes "a woeful ballad/Made to his mistress' eyebrow"? |
| evening, silence, song, ever | after which words in the following lines whould a reader pause?- "on a lone winter evening, when the frost/Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills/The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever. . . |
| the grasshopper lives in the meadow. | how are the grasshopper and the cricked different in the poem "on the grasshopper and the cricket"? |
| contains an octave and a sestet | like all Petrarchan sonnets, "on the grasshopper and the cricket"... |
| his memories of past sorrows | in sonnet 30, what is the cause of the speaker's unhappiness |
| serene | what word best describes the mood of the pseaker at the end of Sonnet 30? |
| comforts of friendship | sonnet 30 is primarily about the... |
| both have a musical quality | in "on the grasshopper and the cricket," how are the sounds of the grasshopper and the cricket like poetry? |
| parallelism | repetition of phrases or sentences similar in structure |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| haiku | three-line poem of 5-7-5 syllables |
| figurative | lang. not meant to be interpreted literally; used to create vivid impressions by comparing dissimilar things |
| onomatopoeia | word's sound imitates a natural sound |
| rhyme scheme | pattern of a rhyme in a poem |
| imagery | lanugage that appeals to the senses |
| free verse | poetry with no set pattern |
| lyric | poems, rich in musical devices, expressing personal thoughts and feelings |
| alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds |
| narrative | poetry that tells a story |
| metaphor | identifies one thing in the terms of another |
| refrain | words repeated regularly in a poem |
| personification | gives human qualities to something nonhuman |
| approximate rhyme | final sounds are similar, but preceding sounds are not |
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