Unit Assessment



1.	The repetition of the sounds in two or more words, such as run and sun, is called __________.
	A.	rhythm
	B.	rhyme
	C.	assonance
	D.	alliteration

Read the following lines from Walt Whitman's poem, A Noiseless Patient Spider. Then answer question 2.

And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,



2.	These lines are an example of __________ poetry.
	A.	haiku
	B.	rhymed
	C.	sonnet
	D.	free verse

3.	How does an poet establish mood?


4.	Haiku is a traditional Japanese form of poetry with three lines and seventeen syllables.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

5.	Click on the letter of the word or phrase that means about the same as the underlined word. The gray walls made the windowless room seem dreary.
	A.	complete
	B.	depressing
	C.	intense
	D.	ideal

6.	A figure of speech in which an object or idea is given human characteristics is called
	A.	allusion.
	B.	parallelism.
	C.	personification.
	D.	assonance.

7.	The following excerpt from Defining the Grateful Gesture by Yvonne Sapia is an example of which literary device? we'd sit like solemn loaves of bread, sighing over the white plates
	A.	simile
	B.	metaphor
	C.	satire
	D.	enjambment

8.	How does a lyric poem differ from other types of poetry?


9.	Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds at the ends of words.
	A.	TRUE
	B.	FALSE

10.	Give an example of assonance.

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