Dr. Norman Prinsky

English 1102 - Augusta State University

Quiz on Chs. 19-20 (Plus Review Material) of RJ8

Directions: As on previous quizzes.

1. Poetry written in specific and traditional patterns of rhyme, meter, line length, or line groupings is called: (a) open-form (b) mesostich (c) closed-form (d) run-on

2. Poetry written with a metrical pattern but without rhyme is called: (a) blank verse (b) open-form (c) enjambed (d) stanzaic

3. Poetry written without definite meter is called: (a) blank verse (b) open-form (c) enjambed (d) stanzaic

4. The shortest, two-line, stanza is called the: (a) hemistich (b) couplet (c) disyllabic (d) duodecimo

5. As discussed in Roberts and Jacobs, one of the greatest users of the two-line stanza form was the eighteenth-century poet: (a) Robert Henryson (b) Michael Drayton (c) William Wordsworth (d) Alexander Pope

6. The three-line stanza is called the: (a) triolet (b) tercet (c) trimetricon (d) teralept

7. The four-line stanza is called the: (a) quatrain (b) quadracep (c) fourteener (d) tetrameter

8. The Italian sonnet is divided into: (a) 7 and 7 (b) 3, 3, 3, 3, and 2 (c) 8 and 6 (d) 4, 4, 4, and 2

9. The English sonnet is divided into: (a) 7 and 7 (b) 3, 3, 3, 3, and 2 (c) 8 and 6 (d) 4, 4, 4, and 2

10. John Keats’s poem about a nightingale represents the genre of poem: (a) sonnet (b) ode (c) elegy (d) ballad (e) haiku

11. John Milton’s poem “Lycidas” represents the genre of poem: (a) sonnet (b) ode (c) elegy (d) ballad (e) haiku

12. The anonymous poem “Sir Patrick Spens” represents the genre of poem: (a) sonnet (b) ode (c) elegy (d) ballad (e) haiku

13. A poem of three lines, with a total of seventeen syllables in a pattern of five, seven, and five syllables per line is the: (a) clerihew (b) haiku (c) macaronic (d) ode

14. A poetry genre molded by the ancient Roman poet Martial is: (a) double dactyl (b) clerihew (c) limerick (d) epigram

15. A poetry genre molded by the English writer Edward Lear is: (a) double dactyl (b) clerihew (c) limerick (d) epigram

16. A poetry genre molded by the English writer E.C. Bentley is: (a) double dactyl (b) clerihew (c) limerick (d) epigram

17. A poetry genre molded by American poet Anthony Hecht is: (a) double dactyl (b) clerihew (c) limerick (d) epigram

18. 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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. To illustrate visual poetry (also called shaped verse and concrete poetry), Roberts and Jacobs select and discuss George Herbert's religious poem: (a) "The Altar" (b) "The Windows" (c) "The Bunch of Grapes" (d) "Easter Wings"

23. Herbert's poem, referred to in the immediately preceding question of this quiz, actually resembles, pictorially: (a) church windows (b) a bunch of grapes (c) a pair of wings (d) a crucifix

24. Each stanza of Herbert's poem, referred to in the immediately preceding question of this quiz, actually resembles, pictorially: (a) the “stations of the cross” in Jerusalem (b) an altar (c) a Star of David (d) the church transept

25. 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) artistic, visual use of asterisks

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

27. The sample essay on George Herbert's poem "Virtue" makes the point, several times, that to help convey the contrast between the rest of creation and an individual sweet soul, the poem uses contrast between: (a) the primary colors of red, green, and blue (b) the Catholic Church and the Protestant Church (c) free verse and closed form (d) the first three stanzas and the concluding fourth

28. As indicated in the ending chapter material, as well as in the sample essay on Herbert's "Virtue," a facet of every poem that should not be overlooked in the examination of its form is its: (a) prosody (b) spelling (c) morality (d) author

29. As indicated in the early chapter material as well as in the study questions on Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," as well as by the poem itself, the villanelle is made up of: (a) couplets and tercets (b) tercets and quatrain (c) quatrain and quintet (five-line stanza) (d) terza rima quatrains

30. As shown by Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," and suggested by the study questions, the number of rhyming sounds in a villanelle is: (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four

31. As shown by Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the vilanelle form requires repetition of line 1 in lines: (a) 4, 11, and 15 (b) 5, 10, and 16 (c) 7, 11, and 17 (d) 6, 12, and 18

32. As shown by Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," the villanelle form requires repetition of line 3 in lines: (a) 9, 15, and 19 (b) 6, 14, and 17 (c) 8, 12, and 16 (d) 5, 7, and 13

33. Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," besides the villanelle, also represents the poetic genre, already discussed in this class (in connection with Jonson's "On My First Son") of: (a) satire (b) love poem (c) elegy (d)

34. In Jean Toomer's poem "The Reapers," the word scythes (line 2) refers to: (a) expulsion of breath (b) things apparent to the eye (c) curved cutting blades (d) percentage set aside for the Church

35. In Toomer's "The Reapers," the word hones (line 2) refers to: (a) common dwelling places (b) edible parts of the bee's nest (c) agricultural workers' sweethearts (d) sharpening stones

36. One main subject of Toomer's "The Reapers" is: (a) racism (b) the natural world (c) romantic love (d) religion

37. A vivid incident that Toomer's "The Reapers" closes with involves a: (a) sunflower (b) rat (c) wagon (d) hailstorm