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Poetry Exercise and Model Answers

The document provides a poetry exercise with multiple choice questions about poetry concepts like forms of poetry, poetic devices, poetic terms and famous poets. It tests the understanding of concepts like prosody, meter, rhyme, imagery, irony and different forms of stanzas and poetry.

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Poetry Exercise and Model Answers

The document provides a poetry exercise with multiple choice questions about poetry concepts like forms of poetry, poetic devices, poetic terms and famous poets. It tests the understanding of concepts like prosody, meter, rhyme, imagery, irony and different forms of stanzas and poetry.

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Dr.

Nagy Poetry 1st year

Poetry Exercise
A. Choose the correct answer from the following options below :-
1. ….. formulates a concentrated imaginative experience in language.
a) Prose
b) Poetry
c) Prosody
d) None of the above
2. There are ….. stylistic rules of verification in poetry.
a) three
b) four
c) five
d) six
3. ..... is the study of rhythm, meters, and feet which defines poetry.
a) Stanza
b) Rhyme
c) Figurative language
d) Prosody
4. In terms of ….. , poetry versus prose.
a) stanza
b) rhyme
c) figurative language
d) prosody
5. ….. is the organization of stressed & unstressed syllables.
a) Rhyme
b) Rhythm
c) Meters
d) Foot
6. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable is called ….. .
a) iambic foot
b) trochaic foot
c) anapestic foot
d) dactylic foot
7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables is called ….. .
a) iambic foot
b) trochaic foot
c) anapestic foot
d) dactylic foot

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8. Sonic correspondence of syllables placed at the end of lines is called ….. .


a) rhyme
b) stanza
c) prosody
d) rhythm
9. There are ….. forms of stanza in poetry.
a) five
b) six
c) seven
d) eight
10. The simplest form of stanza is ….. .
a) quatrains
b) the couplet
c) spenserian stanza
d) the sonnet
11. ….. is a seven line iambic pentameter stanza.
a) Rhyme royal
b) The couplet
c) Spenserian stanza
d) The sonnet
12. There are ….. kinds of image.
a) eleven
b) twelve
c) thirteen
d) fourteen
13. ….. is a comparison marked out by a specific word of likening.
a) Synecdoche
b) Irony
c) Antithesis
d) Simile
14. ….. is a verbal device which implies an attitude different from meaning.
a) Synecdoche
b) Irony
c) Antithesis
d) Simile
15. Irony is divided into ….. parts.
a) two
b) three
c) four
d) five

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16. “He is angry like a monkey” this sentence is an example of ….. .


a) synecdoche
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) none of the above
17. “walking on air” this sentence is an example of ….. .
a) synecdoche
b) metaphor
c) simile
d) none of the above
18. Elegy is a form of ….. .
a) prosody
b) rhyme
c) classic forms of poetry
d) kinds of image
19. Wystan Hugh Auden written ….. .
a) wind & window flower
b) the more loving one
c) a renouncing of love
d) to autumn
20. The poets who died in the same year are ….. and ….. .
a) Robert Frost - Sylvia Plath
b) Robert Frost - Sir Thomas Wyatt
c) Sir Thomas Wyatt - Sylvia Plath
d) Edmund Spenser - Sir Thomas Wyatt

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B. Which is the correct answer? which is wrong? Put (✓ or ×) :-


1. Poetry is the problematic of science.
2. Stylistic rules of verification are five, two of them are prosody & stanza.
3. Prosody is the study of rhythm, meters, and feet that defines poetry.
4. Foot is each meter consists of repetitive identical units of stressed &
unstressed syllables.
5. Two unstressed syllables followed by an stressed syllable is called dactylic foot.
6. Free verse is an iambic pentameter verse that has no fixed rhyme.
7. A recurring unit of a poem consisting of a number of verses that may or may
not be variable is called stanza.
8. Forms of stanza are seven, the couplet, quatrains, and more.
9. Rhyme royal is a nine line iambic pentameter stanza.
10. A linguistic representation of a sensory experience of an object or a situation
with the purpose of enhancing certain sensational effects called image.
11. The evocation of sensations explored through the recalling of heightened
experience & circumstance for existent feelings.
12. Images sometimes replace reality as they offer levels of experience &
circumstance for existent feelings.
13. There are fifteen kinds of image, simile, metaphor, and more.
14. “Keep your eyes open” this sentence is an example of synecdoche.
15. “The ship plows the seas” this sentence is an example of simile.
16. The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it's
opposed is called antithesis.
17. Irony is a verbal device which implies a different attitude from meaning.
18. Irony is divided into dramatic & verbal irony.
19. The pun is the use of two words similar in pronunciation/form.
20. Epic is a classic form of poetry.
21. Oxymoron is a statement that is apparently contradictory.
22. Pathetic fallacy is a special kind of personification.
23. The sonnet is a stanza of French origin.
24. The couplet is the simplest form of stanza consisting of only two lines.
25. Elegy is a meditative lyric poem.
26. Balled is a form of short narrative folk song.
27. Ode is a ceremonious poem on an occasion of dignity.
28. Wystan Hugh Auden written o tell me the truth about love & to autumn.
29. Robert Lee Frost written wind & window flower & a late walk.
30. The rose of the world was written by William Butler Yeats.

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Model Answers
A. Choose the correct answer from the following options below :-
1. b - Poetry

2. c - five

3. d - Prosody

4. d - prosody

5. b - Rhythm

6. a - iambic foot

7. d - dactylic foot

8. a - rhyme

9. b - six

10. b - the couplet

11. a - Rhyme royal

12. c - thirteen

13. d - Simile

14. b - Irony

15. a - two

16. c - simile

17. d - none of the above (hyperbole)

18. c - classic forms of poetry

19. b - the more loving one

20. a - Robert Frost - Sylvia Plath

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B. Which is the correct answer? which is wrong? Put ( ✓ or ×) :-


1. × - science → art

2. ✓

3. ✓

4. ✓

5. × - dactylic foot → anapestic foot

6. × - Free verse → Blank verse

7. ✓

8. × - seven → six

9. × - nine → seven

10. ✓

11. ✓

12. ✓

13. × - fifteen → thirteen

14. ✓

15. × - simile → metaphor

16. ✓

17. ✓

18. ✓

19. ✓

20. ✓

21. × - Oxymoron → Paradox

22. ✓

23. × - French → Italian

24. ✓

25. ✓

26. ✓

27. ✓

28. × - to autumn → autumn song

29. ✓

30. ✓

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