Midterm Review

Question 1

What foot starts with a stressed syllable and an unstressed syllable?

Answer 1

Trochee

Question 2

What foot starts with an unstressed syllable and has a stressed syllable which follows it?

Answer 2

Iamb

Question 3

What foot starts with two consecutive unstressed syllables and ends with a stressed syllable?

Answer 3

Anapest

Question 4

Name a synonym of near rhyme.

Answer 4

Slant Rhyme or Half-Rhyme

Question 5

What foot starts with one stressed syllables and ends with two consecutive unstressed syllables?

Answer 5

Dactyl

Question 6

What do you call a line with one foot ?

Answer 6

Monometer

Question 7

What is a the following literary device ? My grandma kicked the bucket.

Answer 7

Euphemism

Question 8

Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“Boby read a book by the babbling brook.”

Answer 8

Alliteration and consonance

Question 9

What is the following meter: x/ x/ x/ x/

Answer 9

Iambic tetrameter

Question 10

Identify the literary device: “He cried as though he was a rainy cloud.”

Answer 10

Simile

Question 11

What is this figure of speech:
She felt as if she had won a golden ticket

Answer 11

Allusion (Charlie and the chocolate factory)

Question 12

Give the definition of a euphonic sound

Answer 12

A pleasant sound to hear

Question 13

Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“It will creep and beep while you sleep.”

Answer 13

Internal rhyme

Question 14

What does the use of an apostrophe imply?

Answer 14

It implies that the speaker is talking to someone who is not present.

Question 15

Identify literary device:
“The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared.”

Answer 15

Internal rhyme

Question 16

Identify the meter of the following sentence: I wandered lonely as a cloud

Answer 16

Iambic Tetrameter

Question 17

Identify and explain the literary device: “You are the death of me.”

Answer 17

Metaphor. The “you” is compared to death.

Question 18

Identify the type of rhyme in the following line:
Boy toy named Troy used to live in Detroit
(Anaconda - Nicki Minaj)

Answer 18

Internal Rhyme

Question 19

Name the sound device used in this sentence.
“Peter picked a peck of pickle.”

Answer 19

Alliteration

Question 20

What is the difference between an anaphora and an epistrophe?

Answer 20

Anaphora: Repitition of the same word at the start of a line
Epistrophe: Repetition of the same word at the end of a line

Question 21

What is the following literary device ? We seem to be in a bit of a pickle (when they are about to be killed).

Answer 21

Understatement

Question 22

Which of the following is not a type of connotation?

1. Personal
2. Individual
3. Dictionary definition
4. Universal

Answer 22

3- Dictionary definition

It is the denotation of a word.

Question 23

What is the following meter: /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx /xx

Answer 23

Dactylic Octameter

Question 24

Identify the sound-related device: “What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!”

Answer 24

Assonance of the “o” sound

Question 25

What is the difference between a euphemism and an understatement?

Answer 25

A euphemism tries to attenuate the harsh reality of something, whereas an understatement downplays the intensity of a situation.

Question 26

Name the sound device used in this sentence. "He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts."

Answer 26

Consonance of the sound "sts"

Question 27

Identify the meter of the following sentence: In the blink of an eye

Answer 27

Anapestic dimeter

Question 28

Identify the type of rhyme in the following line: Ooh, your necklace hanging from my neck The night we couldn't quite forget (Out of the woods - Taylor Swift)

Answer 28

Near Rhyme

Question 29

Is this sentence an understatement or a piece of irony ? She gave birth to me, raised me from an infant, always provided for me...Maybe I owe her one...

Answer 29

Understatement

Question 30

Name this literary device: I waited all day It was a very long day Oh, how I've had very bad day

Answer 30

Epistophe

Question 31

What is the figurative language used in the following sentence? "What a sad, beautiful tragic love affair" - Taylor Swift

Answer 31

Oxymoron: The use of two consecutive words that oppose each other. (beautiful tragic)

Question 32

Identify the meter: /x /x /x /x /x

Answer 32

Trochaic Pentameter

Question 33

How is the poet's choice of words called?

Answer 33

Diction

Question 34

What do you call a line with 6 feet?

Answer 34

hexameter

Question 35

Identify the type of rhyme in the following line: Just wakin' up in the mornin', gotta thank God I don't know but today seems kinda odd (It was a good day - Ice Cube)

Answer 35

End Rhyme

Question 36

What is the figurative language used in the following line? "You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes" - Our king, Michael Jackson

Answer 36

Personification: Giving human attributes to inanimate objects/ animals/ abstract concepts. (Horror looks you right between the eyes)

Question 37

Name the sound device used in this sentence. "Maggie comes fleet foot."

Answer 37

Alliteration

Question 38

True or False : The unstressed syllables create the foot

Answer 38

False

Question 39

Name this figure of speech: Get out of bed Get your clothes on Get breakfast Get to school

Answer 39

Anaphora

Question 40

What is the figurative language used when the speaker uses a second person pronoun to talk to someone who is not in the poem?

Answer 40

Apostrophe

Question 41

Identify the following literary device: "Let's drink some shots!"

Answer 41

Metonymy

Question 42

What is the type of irony in: ‘’ An Olympic swimmer but the weight of his medal makes him fall in the pool and drown’’.

Answer 42

Situational irony

Question 43

Name the sound device used in this sentence. "The zoo was amazing, especially the lizards and chimpanzees."

Answer 43

Consonance

Question 44

What is the figure of speech in this song lyric: "Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone"

Answer 44

Allusion

Question 45

What is the effect of irony in a poem?

Answer 45

It undercuts the intensity, and can be used to create a humorous effect.

Question 46

Name the sound device used in this sentence. "No pain, no gain."

Answer 46

internal rhyme

Question 47

Identify the following literary device: "You broke my heart."

Answer 47

Metaphor

Question 48

Identify the meter of this line: Oh! yet a little while

Answer 48

Iambic trimeter with a substituted spondee on the first foot.

Question 49

What differentiate metonymy and synecdoche?

Answer 49

Metonymy is when something is introduced by a new name related to the original concept and synecdoche refers to the part of something to represent the whole

Question 50

A ____________ is a figurative language that uses exaggeration to add emphasis and, in some cases, irony and dramatic effect.

Answer 50

Hyperbole

Question 51

Identify the following literary device: "Many hands kept pulling the kid far away.

Answer 51

Synecdoche

Question 52

What is the connotation of "kill" in this line from Ellen Kay's Pathedy of Manners and what does it add to the poem? "Toying with plots to kill time and re-wed"

Answer 52

The connotation of "kill" is that it is a morally reprehensible act. This conveys that the person is spending their time in a way that is dishonorable.

Question 53

Identify the following literary device: "The whiskers trembled in fear."

Answer 53

Synecdoche

Question 54

The attribution of human characteristics to the inanimate/ abstract is called a _____________.

Answer 54

Personnification

Question 55

Identify the rhyme scheme in the following line: Find the end of the rainbow with a fortune to win It's so different from the world I'm living in Tired of TV I open the window and I gaze into the night But there's nothing there to see, no one in sight

Answer 55

A A B C C

Question 56

True or false? ‘’A man wins the lottery but spends all his winnings on lottery tickets and loses all of them’’ is an example of situational irony

Answer 56

False

Question 57

What are the two possible effects of irony

Answer 57

1. Display humour 2. Display tragedy

Question 58

True or False, this is a near rhyme: There lived a certain man in Russia long ago He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow

Answer 58

False

Question 59

Is this a metonymy or a synecdoche? The suits on Wallstreet are working hard.

Answer 59

Metonymy

Question 60

What are 3 tools used by poets to create the voice? These are inherently also ways for the reader to assign characteristics to it.

Answer 60

There were 5 options: 1. Diction 2. Tone 3. The use of figurative language 4. The use of short or long sentences 5. The use of formal or informal language