First Periodical Test in English III

I. KNOWLEDGE

It is known as the Golden Age of English Literature.

An English poet,dramatist,critic, and song writer who first published plays. One of his works is Song to Celia.

A poem that expresses emotions through songs is called _______.

It is a literary technique that makes abstract ideas more effectively.

It is a figures of speech that refers to a well-known story,event,person,or object in order to make comparison in the readers’ minds.

In the poem, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Jove’s nectar sup implies __.

The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd is written by _________.

The poem, The Inevitable Day written by Christopher Marlowe was an excerpt from the Tragedy of Dr. Faustus, inspired by a/an __________ legend.

It is a poetic device of unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.

A type of blank of verse that follows the pattern two unaccented syllables with an accented one right after it. Examples: com-pre-HEND or in-ter-VENE.

A type of blank verse that has a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, as in FLUT-ter-ing or BLACK-ber-ry.

It is a type of blank verse that has unstressed first and is followed by a stressed syllable

It is the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented. This is often described as a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Who is Mephistopheles in the excerpt, The Inevitable Day?

In the same excerpt above, what does the line, “I’ll burn my books!” imply?

What is meant by Pythagora’s metempsychosis?

The following are all features of a blank verse, EXCEPT,

It is a form of language grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather rhythmic structure.

Swain means __________.

It means two words with the same ending sound.

II. PROCESS

Identify the type of blank verse of the following lines – Iambic pentameter, Trochee, Anapest or Dactyl

Piping down the valleys wild,
Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
And he laughing said to me .

One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured an infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by the bear.

She's the Queen Muse that whispers within
as she watches me battle with style,
she supplies me the yarn that I spin
as she lends me her rhythm awhile.

Identify the whether the language used is Symbolism or Allusion.

“I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio’s.”

Love is a jewel.

“He was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped the lady start her car."

.“He was a real Romeo with the ladies.”

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts,”

III. UNDERSTANDING
Note:This part of the test may have varied answers.Subject for recheck.

Analyze the sample Allusions below and explain its meaning in ONE SENTENCE only.

Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go and I said

Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story baby just say yes -

Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Chocolate was her Achilles heel.

I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchio's.

It has rained so long, it seems as though it has rained for 40 days and nights.

This part of the test may have varied answers. subject for recheck.

What does each Symbol refer to?

dove

heart and cupid

serpent

circle

rosy wreath

IV. PRODUCT
Compose at least a 3-stanza poem written in blank verse. ( 20 points)