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Narrative Poetry. Review. Review Questions. Number a piece of paper from 1-15. 1. What is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song ?.
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Narrative Poetry Review
Review Questions Number a piece of paper from 1-15
1. What is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song?
2. What are groups of repeated lines, usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story?
3. What is the meter of this stanza? She went to work until she grew too old,Came home at night to feed the eunuch catThat kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold.She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat,
4. What is the meter of this stanza? O, my luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June:O, my luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.
5. What is the meter of this stanza? O thou, new-year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood,That longs to burst a frozen budAnd flood a fresher throat with song
6. What type of stanza is this? Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?
7. What type of stanza is this? A still small voice spake unto me: 'Thou art so full of misery,Were it not better not to be?
8. What type of stanza is this? I found a starfish in the bay When I was fishing yesterday
9. What type of stanza is this? My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,That for because their livelihood was but so thin
10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver”
Answers Trade papers with a neighbor
1. What is the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song? Rhyme Scheme or Meter
2. What are groups of repeated lines, usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme and are used like paragraphs in a story? Stanzas
3. What is the meter of this stanza? She went to work until she grew too old,Came home at night to feed the eunuch catThat kept the mat warm and its eyeballs cold.She walked, but ran to wrinkles, then to fat, A B A B
4. What is the meter of this stanza? O, my luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June:O, my luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune. A B C B
5. What is the meter of this stanza? O thou, new-year, delaying long, Delayest the sorrow in my blood,That longs to burst a frozen budAnd flood a fresher throat with song A B B A
6. What type of stanza is this? Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? Quatrain
7. What is type of stanza is this? A still small voice spake unto me: 'Thou art so full of misery,Were it not better not to be? Triplet
8. What type of stanza is this? I found a starfish in the bay When I was fishing yesterday Couplet
9. What type of stanza is this? My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin, They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,That for because their livelihood was but so thin Tercet
10. Who is the protagonist of “The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver” the boy/ the child
11. What is the point of view of the poem? 1st person
12. What does the mother use to make the boy some clothes? the harp
14. What is the mood of the story? sad, unhappy, somber, woeful, depressing, sorrowful, desolate, mournful, despondent, doleful, despondent, miserable, etc.
15. Who is the author? Edna St. Vincent Millay
Follow these directions Count up how many are correct Write that number on the top of the page Circle it Pass the paper back to it’s owner
The Highwayman Alfred Noyes
A FEW THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE READING • Setting: England in the 17th-18th century • A highway man is a person who robs passengers on the highway • Red coats are soldiers • King George was the king of England during this period • A musket is a type of gun they had in those days
Part one Checking for understanding
What is the Meter? • Who came riding up the road? • Who was he coming to see? • What was her name? • What did she look like? • What did the highway man promise Bess? • Who was listening? • A A B C B • The highwayman • The Landlord’s daughter • Bess • Black hair and black eyes • That he would come to her by midnight • Tim the ostler (stableman) Questions Answers
Part Two Checking for understanding
Who came marching to town? • What did they do to Bess? • What did her finger touch? • What did they hear on the road? • What did Bess do when she heard him coming? • Why did Bess kill herself? • What happened to the highwayman? • What happened after their death? • The red coats (soldiers) • They tied her up • The trigger of the musket • The “tlot, tlot” of the horse • She pulled the trigger and killed herself. • To warn her lover of the trap • He was shot down in the highway? • Their ghosts haunted the Inn Questions Answers