Poetry Midterm Study Quiz

Poetry Midterm Study Quiz

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This quiz is not the same as the midterm, but it covers the same information. If you can get 100% on this quiz, I think you will be well-prepared for the exam.

  1. 1

    What is alliteration?

  2. 2

    What is repetition?

  3. 3

    What is personification?

  4. 4

    What is onomatopoeia?

  5. 5

    What is imagery?

  6. 6

    "And the West-Wind came at evening, Walking lightly o'er the prairie, Whispering to the leaves and blossoms..." is an example of:

  7. 7

    "Wooed her with his words of sweetness, Wooed her with his soft caresses, Till she bore a son in sorrow, Bore a son of love and sorrow..." is an example of:

  8. 8

    "Found the beautiful Wenonah, Lying there among the lilies..." is an example of:

  9. 9

    "Wahonowin! Wahonowin!" is an example of:

  10. 10

    Rising action is step __ of a story's plot.

  11. 11

    Climax is step __ of a story's plot.

  12. 12

    Resolution is step __ of a story's plot.

  13. 13

    Exposition is step __ of a story's plot.

  14. 14

    Falling action is step __ of a story's plot.

  15. 15

    In Nokomis's story, Wenonah's death is the:

  16. 16

    In Wenonah's story, Nokomis warning her about the West Wind is the:

  17. 17

    In Hiawatha's story, being born is:

  18. 18

    What type of imagery is this? "I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide."

  19. 19

    What type of imagery is this? "or press an ear against its hive."

  20. 20

    What type of imagery is this? "I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out."

  21. 21

    What type of imagery is this? "walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch."

  22. 22

    Where is the taste imagery in the poem "This Is Just To Say"?

  23. 23

    Who is Hiawatha's mother?

  24. 24

    Who is Hiawatha's father?

  25. 25

    Who is Hiawatha's grandmother?

  26. 26

    What makes the sound "minne-wawa"?

  27. 27

    What makes the sound "mudway-aushka"?

  28. 28

    What did Hiawatha's grandmother teach him about?

  29. 29

    "Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses": what is this?

  30. 30

    "The broad white road in heaven, pathway of the ghosts, the shadows": what is this?

  31. 31

    "The death-dance of the spirits, ... flaring far away to northward, in the frosty nights of Winter": what is this?

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