unit 2

Question 1

alliteration

Answer 1

the repetition of initial (beginning) consonant sounds (clasps, crag, crooked)

Question 2

antithesis

Answer 2

a rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their contrasting meanings.

Question 3

anaphora

Answer 3

the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units.

Question 4

assonance

Answer 4

the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words. (clasps, crag, hands)

Question 5

caesura

Answer 5

a pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.

Question 6

consonance

Answer 6

the repetition of terminal consonant sounds and more rarely of internal consonants that creates extra emphasis on the word involved. (clasps, hands)

Question 7

enjambment

Answer 7

a poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line.

Question 8

eye rhyme

Answer 8

word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently.

Question 9

free verse

Answer 9

poetry with no set meter or rhyme.

Question 10

internal rhyme

Answer 10

rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry.

Question 11

perfect rhyme

Answer 11

agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds.

Question 12

slant rhyme

Answer 12

a rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds. (star and door)

Question 13

end rhyme

Answer 13

rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry.

Question 14

meter

Answer 14

the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Question 15

How do you describe a particular meter of a poem?

Answer 15

One must determine the poetic feet and consider the length of the line

Question 16

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 16

most common in english

Question 17

What can meter produce?

Answer 17

various moods, depending on the combination of poetic foot and line length

Question 18

onomatopoeia

Answer 18

the use of words that sound like what they mean. ”clangity-clang” (hiss, buzz)

Question 19

poetic feet

Answer 19

the specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poem’s lines.

Question 20

rhetoric

Answer 20

the art of public speaking.

Question 21

rhetoric question

Answer 21

questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect.

Question 22

rhyme

Answer 22

two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel.

Question 23

scansion

Answer 23

the process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem.

Question 24

end stopped lines

Answer 24

lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation

Question 25

feminine ending

Answer 25

in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed.

Question 26

masculine ending

Answer 26

in poetry, a line ending in which the final syllable is stressed.

Question 27

How are most techniques of organizing sound an syntax based on?

Answer 27

Parallelsim and Repetition

Question 28

The effect or organized sound and syntax

Answer 28

To clarify ideas in the text To set a particular mood in the work To emphasize important parts of the text

Question 29

Patterned repetition of sound, syntax, and thought is

Answer 29

more common in poetry than in prose.

Question 30

What does meter most often directly affects?

Answer 30

the mood of the poem

Question 31

WHO HAS SEEN THE WIND? | what does the author begin each stanza of her poem with?

Answer 31

A rhetorical question

Question 32

What does parallelism do in the poem?

Answer 32

the technique that characterizes the first overall structure of the poem

Question 33

RATTLESNAKE | How does the change of meter support the poem's change of content?

Answer 33

In the first stanza the words roll off the tongue creating easy rhythm and a sense of slow movement. In the second stanza the meter changes, the speaker’s mood changes, using the hard “c” sound and there is an awakened mood of danger.

Question 34

What two sound devices are used in the second stanza?

Answer 34

rhyme and alliteration

Question 35

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET | What is the theme?

Answer 35

that poetry relief from life's hardships

Question 36

What does Keats use to add natural flow of his lines?

Answer 36

enjambment

Question 37

How does the poem exhibit parallelism inits overall content?

Answer 37

Lines 1 and 9 are nearly identical and introduce a new section of the poem. Lines 1-8 describe the grasshopper Lines 9-14 describe the cricket There is parallel content and syntax emphasizing similar functions of both insects.

Question 38

How is the poem written in sonnet written?

Answer 38

in an iambic pentameter

Question 39

"MARCH FOR A ONE--MAN BAND" | What is the theme?

Answer 39

This poem emphasizes sound and syntax over rhyme.

Question 40

what does the term "irrational anthem" refer to?

Answer 40

to the poems chaotic performance.

Question 41

Wagoner use the following to reinforce the meaning of his poem:

Answer 41

No rhyme Broken rhythm Sound words

Question 42

Example of assonance

Answer 42

“boot, toot, sloop”

Question 43

Example of rhyme or onomatopoeia

Answer 43

“tweedledy and bumbledy”

Question 44

Describe the meter

Answer 44

it is irregular meter; it shifts randomly between iambic and anapestic. It throws off the reader’s rhythm and adds to the awkward chaos of the one man band’s performance.

Question 45

FOUL SHOT | What is the theme?

Answer 45

the author builds suspense by withholding the climax until the very end.

Question 46

The author uses what part of speech that builds the suspense?

Answer 46

verb

Question 47

What is an example of how the poet creates suspense throughout the poem?

Answer 47

The lines, “And then/And then/And then”

Question 48

``` List devices of sound or syntax found in the lines: Lands Leans, Wobbles, Wavers, Hesitates, Exasperates, ```

Answer 48

Alliteration Consonance Assonance

Question 49

A GRAY SLEEVE | What is the theme?

Answer 49

War is a destructive disruption of what normal human life should be.

Question 50

How does Crane creates a feeling of indecision in his writing?

Answer 50

by using words such as “might”, “seem” and “maybe”.

Question 51

Examples of alliteration

Answer 51

“rear rank”, “still stretched”

Question 52

Examples of onomatopoeia

Answer 52

“the innumerable hoofs thundered”.

Question 53

"WINTER OCEAN" | What is the mood of the poem?

Answer 53

is defiant, confrontational, depicting an active and energetic sea

Question 54

How does personification portray the poem?

Answer 54

the defiance of the ocean

Question 55

What impressions of the ocean of the rhythm and sounds give readers?

Answer 55

The sounds create a solid and choppy sound that evokes a kind of blustering energy. Heavy vowels such as the short u and the long a combine with marked consonants to create an almost cacophonous roughness.

Question 56

"TRAVELING THROUGH THE DARK" | What is the theme?

Answer 56

The speaker confronts a moral problem. (life’s moral dilemmas often require hard decisions.)

Question 57

What is an example of personification?

Answer 57

when the author speaks of the wilderness listening.

Question 58

Example of onomatopoeia

Answer 58

“hood purred”

Question 59

What does the speaker realizes when he touches the deer?

Answer 59

that the fawn inside her is still living.

Question 60

Why does the speaker feels like its necessary to move the deer?

Answer 60

another car may swerve to miss the deer and possibly cause another accident in which people are killed.

Question 61

The two swervings the author speaks of are:

Answer 61

The swerving of a car | The swerving from his decision

Question 62

Does this contradict a Biblical worldview?

Answer 62

No

Question 63

"I HAVE A DREAM" | What does the extended metaphor explain?

Answer 63

the freedoms and opportunities denied African Americans is based on the image of a check and a bank.

Question 64

The sections of the speech beginning with " I have a dream" and "Let freedom ring" both illustrate what?

Answer 64

both illustrate the technique of chiasms.

Question 65

King's statement listed here is an example of what rhetorical device : I have a dream that my four children will one day lie in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Answer 65

Antithesis