1) What is formal poetic diction?  a) A poem written in a specific rhyme scheme b) The use of elevated language over ordinary language c) Mostly slang d) Mostly the use of metaphor and simile in the verse 2) What is the denotation of a word? a) The literal, dictionary meaning of that word b) Associations and implications that go beyond a word’s literal meaning c) A comparison using “like” or “as” d) The way a word sounds 3) What is syntax? a) The literal dictionary meaning of a word b) The ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns c) Associations and implications that go beyond a word’s literal meaning d) The correct ways to use grammar e) 4) What do the following words have in common: fragility, vulnerability, altitude, the sky, freedom? a) They are ordered into an unexpected syntax b) They can all be denotations of the word bird. c) They are all examples of formal poetic diction. d) They can all be connotations of the word bird. 5) Tone is  a) the literal dictionary definition of a word. b) the ordering of words into meaningful verbal patterns. c) the writer’s attitude toward the subject or mood. d) a bitter or sarcastic approach to a poem’s subject 6) What's an image? a) Language that addresses the senses b) The literal definition of a word c) What a word looks like d) The way a word sounds and looks 7) Based on the following lines from William Blake’s “London,” what tone do his images convey? "In every cry of every man/In every infant’s cry of fear/In every voice, in every ban/The mind-forged manacles I hear" a) Regeneration b) Hope c) Desolation d) Irony 8) In John Keats’s “To Autumn,” the image of autumn “sitting careless on a granary floor / Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind” makes autumn seem like autumn seem like a) A powerful destroyer b) A person c) The wind d) An animal 9) Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” contains the image of a soldier being attacked by gas-shells, “the white eyes writhing in his face / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin.” The poem’s title comes from a Latin saying that means “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” How do the poem’s images of war relate to the title? a) They reinforce the title b) They translate what the title means c) They undermine the title d) They are disconnected to the title. 10) Consider the following lines from Randall Jarrell’s “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”: “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State / And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.” The word State is an example of a) formal diction b) jargon c) denotation d) ambiguity

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