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ELA test-Poems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How do you format a poems title? | Quotation marks |
| What is the format for citing a line of a poem? | (Name, line #) |
| What is "O Captain! My Captain"'s historical background? | The Civil War |
| When was Abraham Lincoln asssasinated? | 5 days after the Civil War |
| When did the Civil War take place? | April 12, 1861-April 9, 1865 |
| Ballad | A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas |
| Elegy | Type of lyrical poem, serious, expresses grief/celebrates virtues of deceased |
| Octaves | 8 line stanzas |
| Quatrain | 4 line stanza (alternating rhymes) |
| Rhyme Scheme | The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme at end of line |
| Perfect rhyme | when words rhyme perfectly (won, and done) |
| Internal rhyme | Rhyme in middle of line |
| Slant Rhyme | Imperfect rhyme (flood, and stood) |
| Alliteration | The same sound at the beginning of words in a row, in a line |
| Anaphora | repetition of phrase at beginning of stanza |
| Apostrophe | Addressing a person or thing that is not there |
| Assonance | When 2 or more words rhyme in the middle of the word (Near, and beat) |
| Consonance | When 2 or more words rhyme at the end of the word |
| Epistrophe | repetition of phrase at end of stanza |
| Extended metaphor | A metaphor that continues throughout the entire poem |
| Inversion | When the words of a line are reversed |
| Irony | The The use of words to express something other than/ opposite of the literal meaning |
| Juxtaposition | Two things being seen or placed close together that contrast each other |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to an inanimate object |
| repetition | Repeating something that has already been said or written |
| Symbol | When something represents another thing |
| Ship symbolizes- | USA and national unity |
| Captain symbolizes- | Abraham Lincoln |
| Caesura | Punctuation pause in middle of a line (-/:;) |
| End stop | Punctuation at end of line |
| Enjambment | No punctuation at end of line, sentence continues on to the next line |
| Who wrote the "Concord Hymn"? | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Transcendentalism | Based on the belief that the natural world transcends, or is superior to, the material world |
| Occasional poem | Written for a specific occasion |
| What saw the poem "Concord Hymn" written for? | The American Revolution |
| Lyrical poem | Lyrical poem expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in first person |
| Ode | A formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses and praises a person, place, or event |
| Hymn | religious song or praise to G-D |
| Concord hymn: Stanza 1 tense- | Past (Battle of 1775) |
| Concord hymn: Stanza 2 tense- | Past/present (words "slept", and "sleep") |
| Concord hymn: Stanza 3 tense- | Present (word "to-day") |
| Concord hymn: Stanza 4 tense- | Future (words "them and thee"/asking nature to protect monument in future) |
| What effect does enjambment have? | Builds suspense, emphasis, flow |
| Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally |
| Who wrote "The Bells" | Edgar Allen Poe |
| What genre is "The Bells"? | American Romanticism, Gothic |
| Silver Bells- | Happy, carefree childhood |
| Golden bells- | Joyous, wedding, signifies adulthood |
| Brass Bells- | Terror/fear, Challenges of mature life |
| Iron Bells- | Solemn/sad, Death and funeral |
| Onomatope | Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named |
| Ex. of Onomatope | Tinkle |
| What does the repetition of the word "bells" imitate? | The sound of a bell ringing |
| Paradox | Seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained might be true |
| Who wrote "Mending Wall"? | Robert Frost |
| Blank Verse | Lack of rhyme scheme/stanzas, prevents poem from being sing-songy |
| Iamb | Stressed-Unstressed |
| Metaphor of "Mending Wall" | Tension btwn ppls need for connection and desire to protect own self, also represents communication barriers btwn ppl |
| Simile | Comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | Comparison NOT using "like" or "as" |
| Frost symbolizes... | powerful-damaging; Natural-Supernatural |
| Spring symbolizes... | Rebirth |
| Fence/Wall Symbolizes... | Boarder, divisions between people |
| Cows symbolize... | small injuries if left unchecked might grow into more serious conflict between people who live nearby |
| darkness symbolizes... | Ignorance/error |
| Couplet | 2 lines that rhyme |
| Who wrote "O Captain! My Captain!"? | Walt Whitman |
Created by:
Meira L