Unit Assessment



1.	In a poem, a __________ is a single word or a row of words, and a __________ is a group of lines that forms a unit.
	A.	line; stanza
	B.	lyric; sonnet
	C.	chorus; refrain
	D.	repetition; section

Read the following excerpt from Billy Collins's poem Creatures. Then answer question 2.
So you will understand my reaction
this morning at the beach



2.	Which literary device is used in this excerpt?
	A.	alliteration
	B.	rhyme
	C.	personification
	D.	enjambment

3.	Explain how a writer creates mood in a literary work.


4.	Poetry without a fixed pattern of rhyme, meter, line length, or stanza arrangement is called __________.
	A.	prose
	B.	free verse
	C.	epic poetry
	D.	haiku

5.	The speaker in a poem is similar to the narrator in a work of prose.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

6.	Choose one of the following phrases to accurately complete this statement. A haiku is made up of
	A.	seven syllables.
	B.	five syllables.
	C.	seventeen syllables.
	D.	unrhymed lines.

7.	What do you do when you interpret imagery?


8.	A sonnet is a lyric poem of fourteen lines that is usually written in
	A.	free verse.
	B.	unrhyming verse form.
	C.	iambic pentameter.
	D.	groups of three lines.

9.	What can a reader do to clarify meaning in a poem or literary work?


10.	The repetition of the same stressed vowel sounds and succeeding consonant sounds in two or more words is called __________.
	A.	dialogue
	B.	diction
	C.	rhyme
	D.	alliteration

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