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01 Poetry Handbook Structure Quiz

Question 1: What type of rhyme is used by Shakespeare in these
lines from "Sonnet 34?"

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,

And make me travel forth without my cloak,

To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,

Hiding thy bravery in their rotten smoke?

Answer 1: End rhyme

Question 2: A long poem that tells the story of a hero or legend is

called:

Answer 2: an epic

Question 3: Which of these lines from Shakespeare's "Sonnet 103"

ends with an enjambment?

O! blame me not, if I no more can write! 1

Look in your glass, and there appears a face 2

That over-goes my blunt invention quite, 3

Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace. 4

Answer 3: Line 2
Question 4: Poems that do not follow specific rules are called:

Answer 4: free verse

Question 5: Which of these subjects would most likely be written

about in a narrative poem?

Answer 5: Life experiences of a writer

Question 6: Stanzas containing three lines are called:

Answer 6: tercets

Question 7: What type of rhyme is used by Edgar Allen Poe in these

line from "The Raven?"

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the
door;—

Answer 7: Identical rhyme

Question 8: What type of rhyme is illustrated by this word pair?

female/retail

Answer 8: Eye rhyme

Question 9: Which type of poem is classified as a lyric?

Answer 9: Elegy
Question 10: What is the rhyme scheme in this excerpt from
Longfellow's, "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls?"

The tide rises, the tide falls,

The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;

Along the sea-sands damp and brown

The traveler hastens toward the town,

And the tide rises, the tide falls.

Answer 10: aabba