Unit 2 Practice

Unit 2: Practice
Task 1: Choose the correct answer for each question.
1. Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
What literary device can we find in this extract?
A. Symbolism B. Paradox C. Personification D. Hyperbole
2. What best describe a poem?
A. A piece of writing in paragraphs B. A work with lines and stanzas
C. A performance on stage D. a talk on the TV
3. Which is the traditional Japanese poem of 3 lines, each having a certain number of syllables (5 7 5)?
A. epic B. ballad C. haiku D. elegy
4. What is it called when two consecutive lines of poetry rhyme?
A. tercet B. couplet C. quatrain D. cinquain
5. What is a 14-line lyric poem written in iambic pentameter and with a specific rhyme scheme?
A. epic B. limerick C. ode D. sonnet
6. What element of a poem that describes a regular pattern or stressed (/) and unstressed (U) syllables?
A. form B. rhyme C. meter D. stanza
7. What kind of poem that tells a story?
A. descriptive B. narrative C. sonnet D. ode
8. Which element of a poem that describes the musical quality of language, produced by repeating accents?
A. rhyme B. rhythm C. device D. diction
9. Which term refers to a line of poetry with 5 iambs (U / U / U / U / U /) as its rhythm?
A. Iambic pentameter B. Dactylic meter
C. Anapestic meter D. Spondaic meter
10. Which one is a very long narrative poem about a hero with superhuman abilities?
A. epic B. ballad C. haiku D. elegy
11. Which one is storytelling poem in a predictable rhythm, usually written to be sung?
A. limerick B. ballad C. haiku D. “shi”
12. Which element of a poem that describes the situation in which words close together have the same or
similar sounding final syllable(s)?
A. rhyme B. rhythm C. stanza D. form
13. What is a segment of a poem that is divided into groups of lines?
A. rhyme B. rhythm C. stanza D. form
14. What is a poem that does not have a rhyme scheme or typical measure?
A. “luc bat”poem B. sonnet C. free verse D. Tang’s “shi”
15. There once was a man from Peru,
Who dreamed of eating his shoe,
He awoke with a fright,
In the middle of the night,
And found that his dream had come true!
What type of poem is this?
thơ vui 5 câu
A. limerick B. couplet C. haiku D. Elegy
16. Who is a famous poet, known for their sonnets?
A. John Steinbeck B. W. Shakespeare C. James Joyce D. Emily Bronte
17. A poem with four lines is called a _____________________.
A. sonnet B. cinquain C. limerick D. quatrain
18. If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
These lines are an example of a/an _____________________.
A. quatrain B. octet C. couplet D. sestet
19. The line "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest" is an example of iambic ____________________.
A. trimester B. pentameter C. tetrameter D. dimeter
20. What is the most probable reason that rhyme and repetition first found their ways into poems?
A. People wanted a beat they could dance to.
B. They were written for the upper class.
C. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way.
D. The poems were easier to remember and pass on.
21. A definition of formal poetry is verse that ____________________.
A. sticks to certain traditional patterns. B. has no rhyme scheme.
C. uses figurative language. D. is written in blank verse.
22. What is a tercet?
A. figure of speech B. literary genre C. complex rhyme scheme D. three-line stanza
23. Which one of the following lines is written in iambic pentameter?
A. "I lift my lamp beside the golden door"
B. "When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me"
C. "Not that the pines are darker there"
D. "And sorry I could not travel both"
Task 2: Read the following free poem and answer the questions.
Excuses Excuses - by Gareth Owen
Late again Blenkinsopp? That was the dentist sir.
What’s the excuse this time? The dentist died?
Not my fault sir. No sir. My teeth sir.
Who’s fault is it then? You missed the maths test Blenkinsopp!
Grandma’s sir. I’d been looking forward to it sir.
Grandma’s? What did she do? Right, line up for PE.
She died sir. Can’t sir.
Died? No such word as “can’t” Blenkinsopp
She’s seriously dead alright sir. No kit sir.
That makes four grandmothers this term Where is it?
Blenkinsopp Home sir.
And all on PE days. What’s it doing at home?
I know. It’s very upsetting sir. Not ironed sir.
How many grandmothers have you got Couldn’t you iron it?
Blenkinsopp? Can’t sir.
Grandmothers sir? None sir. Why not?
You said you had four. Bad hand sir.
All dead sir. Who usually does it?
And what about yesterday Blenkinsopp? Grandma sir.
What about yesterday sir? Why couldn’t she do it?
You were absent yesterday. Dead sir.
1. Identify the meter of the poem.

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freeverse => no meter
2. Underline four rhymes in the poem.

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3. What is the tone of the poem?
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ironic / joyful / humourous
4. List two figurative devices in the poem

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irony, alliteration
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THE DAFFODILS
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, (over valleys)
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way, (Earth’s galaxy)
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: (edge, border)
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. (lively)
The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: (delight)
A poet could not but be gay, (happy)
In such a jocund company: (cheerful)
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie (often)

In vacant or in pensive mood, (thoughtful)
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
THE END

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Unit 2: Practice

Task 1: Choose the correct answer for each question.

1. Do not go gentle into that good night,

1. Identify the meter of the poem.

2. Underline four rhymes in the poem.

4. List two figurative devices in the poem

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Continuous as the stars that shine

The waves beside them danced; but they

For oft, when on my couch I lie (often)

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