Chapter 11 Quiz

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. According to your textbook, the social purpose of poetry is:

to record important events for subsequent retellings correct incorrect

to reflect upon the human condition correct incorrect

to play with language in order to shock and surprise correct incorrect

difficult to identify as individual poems will have different social purposes correct incorrect

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. When teachers explore how a poem is patterned and shaped in a particular way, they are focussing on the register variable of:

mode correct incorrect

tenor correct incorrect

field correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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. When teachers draw students' attention to the way in which a poem engages the reader, expresses and evokes feelings and attitudes, they are focussing on:

mode correct incorrect

tenor correct incorrect

field correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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. According to your textbook, resources such as rhythm, rhyme, pauses, metre, alliteration, onomatopoeia and repetition are characteristics of the:

written mode correct incorrect

oral mode correct incorrect

narrative poem correct incorrect

page layout correct incorrect

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. Resources such as stanzas, line breaks, and punctuation are characteristics of the:

narrative poem correct incorrect

oral mode correct incorrect

written mode correct incorrect

page layout correct incorrect

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. The distinctive qualities of poetry include:

'language made strange' through features such as imagery, metaphor and personification correct incorrect

how a poem sounds and how it looks on the page correct incorrect

the ability to play with emotions and open up spaces for the imagination correct incorrect

all of the above correct incorrect

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. Poetic texts which consist of concise, couplet-style descriptions are known as:

haikus correct incorrect

persuasive poems correct incorrect

limericks correct incorrect

Dylan Thomas portraits correct incorrect

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. Poems such as 'Peter Pumpkin Eater', 'Pussycat, Pussycat', and 'The Owl and the Pussycat' are:

descriptions of places, animals, seasons or plants correct incorrect

reflective of some aspect of the human condition correct incorrect

persuading the reader to a particular action or belief correct incorrect

recounts that can be playful or political correct incorrect

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. In the following sentences, I can see buds bursting with the warmth and I hear the nightbirds winging toward their prey, the underlined words represent:

rich noun groups correct incorrect

descriptive language correct incorrect

action verbs correct incorrect

sensing verbs correct incorrect

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. In the following noun group, an eager-eyed, doggy-drooling, wind-sniffing, smelly-breathed husky, the underlined words are a:

head noun or Thing correct incorrect

premodifier before the head noun correct incorrect

verb group correct incorrect

post modifier after the head noun correct incorrect