Poetry Terms
General Lit Terms
Syntax
MCQ 1
MCQ 2
100
the narrative voice of the poem.
What is the speaker?
100
the emotional quality of a passage or the perceived attitude of a speaker towards a thing or idea in the text.
What is tone?
100
the main idea or most important point in a sentence. Its position may be varied for effect.
What is climax?
100

16. How many speakers does the poem directly present? 

D- Four 

100

1. The poem deals with all the following EXCEPT the 

E- Happiness that follows after grief has passed 

200

form poetry not dictated by an established form or meter and often influenced by the rhythms of speech.

What is free verse? 

200
the author's choice of words based on their exact or connotative meaning for effect.
What is diction?
200
the rhythm or "music" of a sentence that come through parallel elements and repetition.
What is cadence?
200

17. “Laurel” and “bay” (line 5) are allusions to:

(C) leaves traditionally woven into wreaths to honor poets

200

2. The second stanza (lines 5-8) primarily serves to 

C) Ponder the current connection between the speaker and the loved one 

300
the repetition of vowel sounds: “which din dims the light.”
What is assonance?
300
what a word suggests beyond its denotative (precise or dictionary) meaning, including social or emotional connections.
What is connotation?
300
the pace or speed of a sentence (or group of sentences) that comes through a variety of means, such as length of words, number of words, omission of words or punctuation, etc.
What is narrative pace?
300

18. Lines 6-7 suggest that... 

(B) although the World has regenerative powers, the principal narrator of the poem does not

300

3. Which best describes the speaker's implication in lines 11-12? 

A) Only someone remarkably devoted can retain the memory of an absent loves one over time. 

400
represented by a two syllable foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
What is iambic meter?
400
a clever little story; a short account of an interesting situation relevant to the text and used as example.
What is an anecdote?
400
what we call a sentence where the most important idea comes first and the rest of the sentence unfolds easily after that (revealing information not critical to the climax).
What is a loose sentence?
400

21. In the context of the poem “a moth is in thine array” (line 13) is intended to imply that the...

(E) narrator’s soul is getting ready for decay

400

4. In the fourth stanza (lines 13-16), the speaker's explanation is best described as one of

B) rationalization and apology 

500

a rhetorical shift that marks the change of a thought or argument in a poem

volta

500
a moment of insight, spiritual or personal; a character's sudden revelation about life or his or her own circumstances.
What is epiphany?
500
this type of sentence construction (or even paragraph construction) contains balanced grammatical structures that provide similar rhetorical value.
What is parallel sentence or parallel structure?
500

22. Lines 15 and 16 suggest that...

(A) the principal narrator’s final hour will come, despite the small uncertainty of knowing exactly what hour that will be

500

5. In context, "but cannot do thee wrong" (line 16) is best understood to express the speaker's

D) belief that no future love will supplant the former one 

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