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Figurative Language Quiz #1

Last updated about 3 years ago
21 questions
Directions: Answer each question to the best of your ability. Work together! Be mindful of your voices and the time! After you are done, stay at level zero, and let your peers finish!

(20 Points)
Definitions & Terminology!
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What is your name?

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What is the definition of denotation?

1

What is the definition of connotation?

1

What are sensory details and why are they important?

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What is a conceit synonymous with?

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What is the definition of metaphor?

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What is the definition of simile?

Application #1: Use the following poem and answer the related questions!
"The Hound"
By Robert Francis

Life the hound
Equivocal Comes at a bound Either to rend me Or to befriend me. (5) I cannot tell The hound’s intent Till he has sprung At my bare hand With teeth or tongue. (10) Meanwhile I stand And wait the event.
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Based on line 11 and 12 which word best describes the speaker of the poem?

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What figurative language is used throughout the poem?

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In the poem "The Hound", what is the speaker comparing the dog to?

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What is the summary of the poem?

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In what line conveys the dog's hostile or friendly intent?

1

What is the appropriate synonym for the word "rend" in line 4?

Application #2: Use the following poem and answer the related questions!
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees, (5)
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: (10)
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay, (15)
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, (20)
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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What type of language is expressed in the line, "I wandered lonely as a cloud"?

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Besides daffodils, what else dances in the poem?

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When the speaker uses the word "crowd" to refer to the daffodils, what literary term is applied?

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True or False - The word "beneath" in the context of the poem means underneath.

Application #3: Use the following poem and answer the related questions!
"Hope" is the thing with feathers
By Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - (5)
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea - (10)
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
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What does the poet describe as the thing with feathers?

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The poet uses the words "gale" and "storm" as metaphors. What might these words represent in the context of the poem?

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What does "it" refer to in the last line of the poem?

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True or False - The theme of the poem is that hope can survive through even the toughest times.