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Question–Meter–10

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What is an iamb?

Question–Meter–20

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Answer–Meter–20

What is an anapest?

Question–Meter–30

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Answer–Meter–30

What is a trochee?

Question–Meter–40

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Answer–Meter–40

What is a dactyl

Question–Meter–50

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What is a spondee

Question–Poems 1–10

The function of poems in Spoon River Anthology

Answer–Poems 1–10

What are epitaphs on gravestones?

Question–Poems 1–20

The theme of “Lucinda Matlock”

Answer–Poems 1–20

What is “It takes life to love life?”

Question–Poems 1–30

A musician who loves having a good time

Answer–Poems 1–30

Who is Fiddler Jones?

Question–Poems 1–40

The irony of “Richard Corey”

Answer–Poems 1–40

What is Cory is wealthy and admired but kills himself

nonetheless?

Question–Poems 1–50

He hates his life and wishes he could live in another time

Answer–Poems 1–50

Who is Miniver Cheevy?

Question–Poems 2–10

The theme of “Ars Poetica”

Answer–Poems 2–10

What is the idea that poetry should use images to reveal

meaning?

Question–Poems 2–20

The theme of “Poetry”

Answer–Poems 2–20

What is poems should present “imaginary gardens with real toads in them?”

Question–Poems 2–30

A poem that does not approve of death

Answer–Poems 2–30

What is “Dirge Without Music?”

Question–Poems 2–40

The refrain of “Recuerdo”

Answer–Poems 2–40

What is “We were very tired, we were very merry--/We

had gone back and forth all night on the ferry?”

Question–Poems 2–50

Love can make live special and worthwhile

Answer–Poems 2–50

What is the theme of “anyone lives in a pretty

how town?”

Question–Poems 3–10

The meter of “Chicago”

Answer–Poems 3–10

What is free verse?

Question–Poems 3–20

The poet who influence Carl Sandburg

Answer–Poems 3–20

Who is Walt Whitman?

Question–Poems 3–30

The poem alluded to in “Penelope”

Answer–Poems 3–30

What is The Odyssey

Question–Poems 3–40

The poetic technique Frost uses to emphasize the

situation in “Stopping by Woods”

Answer–Poems 3–40

What is consonance?

Question–Poems 3–50

The theme of “Mending Wall”

Answer–Poems 3–50

What is “Before I built a wall I’d like to know/What I was walling in or walling out?”

Question–Poems 4–10

The poetic technique used to emphasize Johnson’s love

of New York in “My City”

Answer–Poems 4–10

What is imagery?

Question–Poems 4–20

The type of poem and meaning of McKay’s “If We

Must Die”

Answer–Poems 4–20

What is a Shakespearean sonnet about the need to stand up and fight in the

face of persecution?

Question–Poems 4–30

The purpose of the metaphor of eating in the kitchen in Hughes’ “I, Too”

Answer–Poems 4–30

What is to highlight the place of African-Americans in US society, both in the

present and in the future?

Question–Poems 4–40

The rivers mentioned in Hughes’ “The Negro Speaks

of Rivers”

Answer–Poems 4–40

What are the Euphrates, the Congo, the Nile, and the

Mississippi?

Question–Poems 4–50

The poetic technique Hughes uses in “Dream

Deferred” and the purpose of using that technique

Answer–Poems 4–50

What are similes used to warn of the negative

consequences of ignoring or postponing dreams?