1102 Final Exam Review
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What are the four basic types of poetry?
Name and define four types of irony.
How is sarcasm different from verbal irony? How are they similar?
Give an example of cosmic irony.
If you paraphrase a poem, what are you doing?
In poetry, what is a persona?
Name three common misconceptions about poetry.
There are two types of language that are used in poetry. What are they? Define them.
What is a stanza?
Explain the difference between end rhyme and internal rhyme. Give an example of each.
Be able to label the rhyme scheme of a poem.
What is the difference between alliteration and assonance? Give an example of each.
What is the difference between metaphor and simile? Give an example of each.
Define Onomatopoeia.
One type of poem we discussed was the Diamante. Why does it have this name?
A poem may be closed or open form. What is the difference?
Name two types of poetic feet and explain their stress pattern.
If a poem is an Iambic Pentameter, how many feet does it have in one line?
What is a couplet?
What is a Deus Ex Machina device?
Name two symbols that seemed important in the play ‘Trifles’. What did these items symbolize?
Think about the characters from ‘A Doll’s House’. Are the main characters fully realized? Why or
why not?
Does Nora, the main character in A Doll’s House, change over the course of the play? How?
Does her husband? Explain.
What do you think was Ibsen’s point in writing A Doll’s House? What was he trying to
communicate?
Summarize the plot of the play ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
One of the themes that recur in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is contrast. Give an example of
one contrast the play uses.
Think about the differences and the similarities between the play and the production we
watched of ‘The Glass Menagerie’. Give some reasons the director may have made the changes.
Did they detract from the play overall?
Describe the plot of ‘The Glass Menagerie’.
Who was the protagonist in the play ‘The Glass Menagerie’?
What is a menagerie?
Who wrote ‘The Glass Menagerie’?