Dr. Prinsky

English 1102

Second Quiz on Ch. 20/”Form” of RJ7

Directions: As on previous quizzes.

1. Roberts and Jacobs note that an early term for open form poetry that is still used today, free verse, could be misleading because free verse: (a) has rhythm, meter, and rhyme (b) is not careless or sloppy (c) was written in Socialist countries as well as democracies (d) actually cost money, being included in expensive nineteenth-century poetry books

Questions on Walt Whitman’s Poem “Reconciliation”

2. To illustrate free verse, Roberts and Jacobs select and discuss and ask questions about Walt Whitman's poem "Reconciliation," whose subject is: (a) revival of a marriage (b) ending of the Civil War (c) stoppage of the feud between two former best friends (d) acceptance of death's inevitability

3. In Whitman's "Reconciliation," the word carnage (line 2) means: (a) ingredient in chili (b) grisly deaths and injuries (c) horse-drawn method of transportation (d) archeological study of history

4. In Whitman's "Reconciliation," the word incessantly (line 3) means: (a) with no stopping (b) marrying a close family member (c) fouling a source of pure water (d) talking very seriously

5. Following the convention for a run-over line (different from a run-on or enjambed line), running over the line not fitting in the allotted margin and indenting it on the next line (or even lines, all with an extra indention), line 3 of the poem runs from “That” to: (a) “incessantly” (b) “again” (c) “this” (d) ”world”

6. Applying Prinsky’s three-step process, scansion of the first line of the poem (not looking for any regular pattern, but just stressed and unstressed syllables, to see if anything expressive emerges) should begin with which two words: (a) “word over” (b) “over all” (c) “beautiful as” (d) “the sky” (e) ”over” and “beautiful”

7. Applying Prinsky’s three-step process, the second step in scansion of the first line of the poem should focus on what two combinations: (a) “word over” and “all beautiful” (b) “beautiful as” and “the sky” (c) “over all” and “the sky” (d) “all beautiful” and “as the”

8. The first line of the poem could be analyzed as which of the following, with regard to stressed or unstressed syllables (the patterns are placed between square brackets): (a) [ U U / / U / U / / U ] (b) [ / U / U / / U U / / ] (c) [ / / U / / U U / U / ] (d) [ U / U / U / U U U / ]

9. The accentual pattern found in the first three words of the first line helps convey the notion of: (a) the need for gentleness in restoring harmony (b) the emphatic importance of restoring harmony (c) the ups and downs of restoring harmony (d) the impossibility of restoring harmony

10. The “word over all” referred to by the speaker (line 1) is, quite literally or precisely: (a) peace (b) beauty (c) reconciliation (d) death

11. The phrase “over all” has a pun in it by referring not only to importance but also to: (a) placement relative to the rest of the poem (b) the Civil War (c) Whitman’s own job as a lowly volunteer hospital nurse during the war (d) Reconstruction

12. The length of the shortest line of the poem is in accord with the line’s focus on: (a) beauty (b) a single word (c) the sky (d) peace

13. The longest line of the poem is in accord with the line’s focus on: (a) tending the sick (b) restoration of prosperity (c) cleanliness (d) an endless process

14. Probably the key word in the poem’s longest line, with reference to the immediately preceding question, is: (a) “hands” (b) “incessantly” (c) “bend” (d) “coffin”

15. The most notable sound effect in the poem is the repetition of which sound: (a) d (b) n (c) r (d) s

16. The sound effect referred to in the immediately preceding question is called: (a) assonance (b) alliteration (c) onomatopoeia (d) cacophony

17. The sound effect referred to in the immediately preceding two questions helps convey all of the following except which one: (a) the satisfaction of victory (b) the quiet of peace (c) the sound of running water (d) the quiet of death

Questions on Another Special Form of Poetry and George Herbert’s Poem “Easter Wings”

18. The special form of poetry in which lines of poetry or words arranged on the page so as to make an actual graphic image on the page is called all of the following except which one: (a) diagrammatic poetry (b) visual poetry (c) shaped verse (d) picture poetry (e) concrete poetry

19. George Herbert’s poem “Easter Wings,” used to illustrate the form referred to in the immediately preceding question, clearly also exemplifies: (a) rhymed verse (b) blank verse (c) free verse (d) trans verse

20. Herbert's poem “Easter Wings,” used to illustrate the form referred to in the the beginning of this section of the quiz, actually resembles, pictorially: (a) church windows (b) a bunch of grapes (c) a pair of wings (d) a crucifix

21. Each stanza of Herbert's poem also actually resembles, pictorially: (a) the “stations of the cross” in Jerusalem (b) an altar (c) a Star of David (d) the church transept

22. The variation in line lengths in the poem relates to the content of the lines and poem in all of the following except which one: (a) ascending and descending (b) expansion and contraction (c) flying (d) liquid and solid

23. The variation in line lengths in the poem relates to the content of the lines and poem in all of the following except which one: (a) male and female (b) sin and redemption (c) wealth and poverty (d) illness and health

24. The shortest lines in the poem could be categorized as: (a) monometer (b) dimeter (c) trimeter (d) tetrameter (e) pentameter

25. The longest lines in the poem could be categorized as: (a) monometer (b) dimeter (c) trimeter (d) tetrameter (e) pentameter

26. The set of rhyming sounds in each stanza shifts in which line of the stanza: (a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 8

Questions on E.E. Cummings’ Poem “Buffalo Bill’s / defunct”

27. E.E. Cummings’ poem “Buffalo Bill’s / defunct” clearly exemplifies: (a) rhymed verse (b) blank verse (c) free verse (d) trans verse

28. In Cummings' poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct," the word defunct (line 2) means: (a) not living or operating (b) having style and rhythm (c) sent to prison (d) separated from marriage partner

29. One of the memorable typographical features of E.E. Cummings' poem "Buffalo Bill's/defunct" is the: (a) deleting of all capital letters (b) arrangement of all the poem's lines at the right margin rather than the left margin (c) running together of several words with no spaces separating them (d) deletion of all apostrophes

30. The arrangement of the lines of the poem -- technically referred to as “echeloning” (or “echeloned lines”) -- helps to form vague but discernible pictorial shapes with reference points at the left and right margins of the poem. As a result, lines 1-5, 6-7, 8-9, and 10-11 become, in effect, sections. Of these sections, which one is notably incomplete in reaching from the left margin to the right: (a) 1-5 (b) 6-7 (c) 8-9 (d) 10-11

31. The variation referred to in the immediately preceding question mainly helps express or convey or suggest: (a) death’s truncation (b) money’s triumph (c) religion’s salvation (d) love’s fulfillment

32. Another suggestion of the vague pictorial pattern of the poem might be: (a) discovering America’s rivers (b) cantering a horse (c) battling American Indians (d) shooting down buffaloes

33. The typographical feature referred to in the second question of this section helps suggest: (a) rapidity (b) thoughtfulness (c) hesitation (d)

34. The typographical feature referred to in the second question of this section helps suggest: create what pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables: (a) iambic (b) trochaic (c) spondaic (d) pyrrhic

35. The pattern referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey: (a) admission coins clinking (b) hoofbeats (c) applause (d) gunshots (e) show tents flapping

36. In the description of Buffalo Bill’s “watersmooth-silver / stallion” (lines 4-5), the most notable sound effect is: (a) assonance (b) alliteration (c) onomatopoeia (d) cacophony

37. The sound effect referred to in the immediately preceding question helps convey: (a) prancing (b) gliding (c) jumping (d) swerving

38. All of the shortest lines except one focus on what might be categorized as: (a) events or actions (b) abstract ideas (c) personages or characters (d) geographical locations

Questions on End-of-Chapter Material and George Herbert’s Poem “Virtue”

39. George Herbert’s poem “Virtue” clearly exemplifies: (a) rhymed verse (b) blank verse (c) free verse (d) trans verse

40. The demonstrative essay on George Herbert's poem "Virtue" makes the point, several times, that the poem uses structural contrast between the first three stanzas and the last stanza to help convey the contrast between: (a) Nature and art (b) observers of religious rules and truly spiritual persons (c) male and female (d) the rest of creation and an individual sweet soul

41. The stanzas, when using very precise terms, are: (a) couplets (b) tercets (c) quatrains (d) quintains (e) sextains

42. A variation in the poem’s prosody is that only in the last stanza: (a) is dimeter used (b) is a rhyme not carried over from a preceding stanza (c) is iambic tetrameter used (d) are polysyllabic (rather than monosyllabic) words used

43. The last line of each of the first three stanzas makes use of all of the following, in connecting to the last line of the other stanzas in the first three, except which one: (a) strong contrast (b) repetition (c) grammatical parallelism (d) iambic meter (e) subtle variation

44. The first three stanzas make pointed use of which main figure of speech: (a) simile (b) apostrophe (c) hyperbole (d) understatement

45. As shown in the opening of the third stanza, the principal extended images of each of the first three stanzas are arranged by the principle of: (a) holiness (b) exclusion (c) liveliness (d) inclusion

46. The image (and wording) of “seasoned timber” (line 14) in the last stanza has all of the following underlying imagistic connections with details or specifics (explicit or implicit) in any of the preceding three stanzas, except which one: (a) one of the four quarters of the year (b) vegetable matter (c) height (d) passage of time

47. The image of the “seasoned timber” (line 14) in the last stanza contrasts in all of the following qualities or ingredients with some of those in the main images in the preceding three stanzas, except which one: (a) solidity (b) tranquility (c) aroma or fragrance (d) brightness (e) romantic associations

48. When the speaker refers to how “my music shows ye [day, rose, spring] have your closes” (line 12), he recalls the etymology of what term for short poetry: (a) limerick (b) epigram (c) lyric (d) elegy

49. The word “closes” (line 12) has not only its musical meaning, glossed by Roberts and Jacobs, but also the meanings of all the following except which one: (a) encounters (b) deaths (c) enclosures (d) coffins

50. With reference to the immediately preceding two questions, the primary figure of speech used in “closes” is: (a) oxymoron (b) paradox (c) metonymy (d) pun (e) anaphora