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ENG 102: English Composition II

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Poetry Quiz

A. Poetry terms in context: Write the term from the list which is illustrated in each example below. The terms are not all used; some are used twice . (5 pts. ea.)

sonnet foot octave sestet couplet assonance alliteration villanelle iambic pentameter tercet haiku blank verse free verse metaphor simile

hyperbole enjambment figurative language rhyme scheme internal rhyme

quatrain personification Italian sonnet English sonnet pun

1. “. . . I see him there

Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top

In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.”

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2. “It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?”

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3. “We passed the Setting Sun—

Or rather—He passed Us—”

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4. “Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself . . .”

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5. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Identify just these lines, not the type of poem.)

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6. “When I heard the learn’d astronomer,

When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me . . .” (type of verse)

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7. “And I dropped down, and down --”

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8. “It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil

Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?” (This is the same quote as #2, but a different part is highlighted.)

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9. “Lose something every day. Accept the fluster a

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. b

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.” a

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10. “Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,

And spills the upper boulder in the sun;

And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.” (type of meter)

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11. “Yet many a man is making friends with death . . .”

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12. “And I will come again, my luve,

Though it were ten thousand mile!”

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13. “I said I wouldn’t,

dammit: No tears.

I’m stone. I’m flesh.”

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14. “. . . And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil . . .”

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15. “My clouded reflection eyes me like a bird of prey . . .”

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B. Choose any one of the poems that you liked from the Social Commentary poems in Module 10, and write a short analysis of it. (It can be from the text or from the Supplement for Social Commentary in Module 10.) You should discuss: the topic of the poem, the poet’s attitude towards this topic, the language and poetic devices (from list of terms) that the poet uses to convey his/her point, and the reason(s) that you liked this poem. (This is not a full-length essay; an extended paragraph should be adequate for your response.) (25 pts.)