quiz

Question 1

short-lived but influential movement that revolted against most poetic forms developed in the past

Answer 1

imagism

Question 2

six rules of imagism

Answer 2

1. common speech but with the exact word
2. new rhythms through free verse
3. absolute freedom in choice of subject
4. present an image through details
5. poetry that is clear, not indefinite
6. as much as possible in the fewest words

Question 3

flowering of the arts in the black community that was a market for black literature without stereotypes and a forerunner of the civil rights movement

Answer 3

Harlem Renaissance

Question 4

clash of ideals in the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 4

1. those who wanted to be mainstream and separate from traditionally black roots
2. those who wanted a separated culture and embraced black culture and heritage

Question 5

conflicted poet who was an alcoholic and wrote a sense of tragedy in many poems

Answer 5

Edwin Arlington Robinson (wrote traditionally and used character analysis)

Question 6

occurs when the story’s events violated normal expectations

Answer 6

situational irony (Edwin Arlington Robinson)

Question 7

Robinson presents his characters in three ways:

Answer 7

1.how character sees himself
2. how townspeople see him
3. how narrator of the poem sees him

Question 8

Robinson’s poems

Answer 8

Miniver Cheevy (guy is alcoholic), and Richard Cory (guy commits suicide)

Question 9

most significant poet of the time

Answer 9

Robert Frost (wrote poem for JFK and won 4 Pulitzer Prizes)

Question 10

literary style that seeks to reflect life accurately in subject matter and depiction

Answer 10

realism

Question 11

unrhymed iambic pentameter

Answer 11

blank verse

Question 12

a statement that seems to be self-contradictory yet actually makes sense when understood in the right context

Answer 12

paradox

Question 13

Robert Frost’s poems

Answer 13

The Gift Outright, The Road Not Taken, The Death of the Hired Man, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall, Birches

Question 14

The Gift Outright:
1. the gift
2. theme
3. president whose inauguration this was read at

Answer 14

1. us, the people
2. traces the history of the US briefly
3. JFK

Question 15

The Death of the Hired Man:
1. who dies?
2. cynical view of home
3. sympathetic view of home

Answer 15

1. Silas
2. Warren
3. Mary

Question 16

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening:
1. metaphor for life
2. metaphor for death

Answer 16

1. trip
2. sleep

Question 17

Mending Wall:
1. wants walls
2. doesn’t see the point in walls

Answer 17

1. neighbor
2. speaker

Question 18

author whose Bohemian lifestyle symbolized the liberated woman of the 1920s; was traditional in vocabulary and verse form but modern in theme and tone

Answer 18

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Question 19

known for using the Italian sonnet most often

Answer 19

Edna St. Vincent Millay (8 + 6)

Question 20

Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote _________, which compares love and beauty

Answer 20

Sonnet XXVI

Question 21

imagist poet who was an outspoken supporter of Fascism and anti-Semitism; found insane and spent 12 years in federal hospital; “open” forms and very influential

Answer 21

Ezra Pound

Question 22

imagist poet influenced by Pound and Doolittle, who attacked conventional forms of speech and strove to represent actual American speech

Answer 22

William Carlos Williams

Question 23

imagist poet with the pen name given by Pound; lived in England and Switzerland and known for translating Greek poetry and long free verse poems

Answer 23

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)

Question 24

imagist poet whose work doesn’t fit a single movement (outgrew imagism); showed growing awareness of national, social, and cultural heritage and called attention to nation’s issues like Fascism

Answer 24

Archibald MacLeish

Question 25

the use of words, ideally as few as possible, to create a sharp image

Answer 25

imagism

Question 26

Ezra Pound wrote

Answer 26

In a Station of the Metro ("apparition")

Question 27

William Carlos Williams wrote

Answer 27

the Red Wheelbarrow (focused on wheel)

Question 28

H.D. wrote

Answer 28

Heat (humid heat)

Question 29

Archibald MacLeish wrote

Answer 29

Ars Poetica (poetry shouldn't try to teach, but just be)

Question 30

poet who converted to Anglicanism; new poetic form with irony, abrupt shifts, wide variation in diction, countless allusions; addressed social ills and gave the cure: return to Christianity

Answer 30

T.S. Eliot

Question 31

a lyric poem in which a character (not the author) speaks to a silent audience about a critical moment in life

Answer 31

dramatic monologue

Question 32

the repetition of coordinating conjunctions (especially and) in close proximity for effect

Answer 32

polysyndeton

Question 33

T.S. Eliot wrote

Answer 33

Journey of the Magi (dramatic monologue with polysyndeton that focuses on spiritual renewal and spiritual illumination)

Question 34

poet whose jobs gave knowledge of the common people; bold experimenter who wrote biography about Lincoln

Answer 34

Carl Sandburg (known for free verse and his voice was representative of his day; praised America's strength and vitality)

Question 35

poetry with no set rhyme or meter

Answer 35

free verse (uses modern subjects and modern style)

Question 36

Carl Sandburg wrote

Answer 36

Chicago (personifies as working man), Fog (compares fog to cat), Grass (history repeats)

Question 37

WWI expatriate who promoted complete individual freedom; didn't like technology, shock readers into seeing familiar in a new way and joined Red Cross in France

Answer 37

E. E. Cummings

Question 38

an imaginative comparison consisting of the stated or implied equivalence of two dissimilar things

Answer 38

metaphor (tenor: subject; vehicle: image to which subject is compred)

Question 39

describing one sense experience in terms of another

Answer 39

synesthesia

Question 40

brief phrases that combine contradictory elements for effect

Answer 40

oxymoron

Question 41

arrangement and appearance of printed matter

Answer 41

typography

Question 42

E. E. Cummings wrote

Answer 42

Somewhere I have never traveled (beloved is weather, he is flower), In Just- (about spring), Grasshopper

Question 43

poet who wrote personal, beginning of self-as-source style; used formal structure and free form

Answer 43

Theodore Roethke

Question 44

poetic lines that end with a natural break or pause

Answer 44

end-stopped lines

Question 45

specific words the poet chose

Answer 45

diction

Question 46

Theodore Roethke wrote

Answer 46

My Papa's Waltz (dad is alcoholic), Dolor (dust covers people because doesn't like corporate office experience)

Question 47

Harlem Renaissance poet who was Jamaican by birth; embraced then rejected Communism before converting to Catholicism and becoming US citizen

Answer 47

Claude McKay

Question 48

Harlem Renaissance poet who refused to label himself as a “Negro poet” and was highly acclaimed during the 1920s for writing, publishing, and editing

Answer 48

Countee Cullen

Question 49

leader of the Harlem Renaissance; jazz and blues influenced poetic style; first black American author to support himself solely through writing

Answer 49

Langston Hughes

Question 50

Claude McKay wrote

Answer 50

If We Must Die (response to race riots, violent), America (loves US despite faults and hope for future, more positive)

Question 51

Countee Cullen wrote

Answer 51

Yet Do I Marvel

Question 52

Langston Hughes wrote

Answer 52

Harlem (American dream can be corrupted); I, Too (all are equal); Dream Variations (dreams of living free of oppression)