I Explain the following terms. (10Χ2’)

1. Ballad

2. Lyric

3. Narrative poem

4. Epic

5. Ode

6. Blank verse

7. Free verse

8. Image

9. Tone

10. Theme

II Fill in the blanks. (10Χ2’)

1. A _____ is the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem.

2. A rhyme in the strict sense is also called a _____. Examples are sight and flight, deign and gain, madness and sadness.

3. A _____ is a rhyme in which the stress is on the final syllable of the words (rhyme, sublime)

4. A _____ is a rhyme in which the stress is on the penultimate (second from last) syllable of the words (picky, tricky)

5. _____ refer to similarity in spelling but not in sound where the final sounds are spelled identically but pronounced differently. Examples in English are cough, bough, and love, move.

6. _____ is a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse.

7. _____ occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.

8. _____: matching consonants. (rabies, robbers)

9. _____: matching initial consonants. (ship, short)

10. _____: matching vowels. (shake, hate)

III Read the lines from the poems given and write down their figures of speech. (10Χ2’)

1.The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (By William Shakespeare’s)

“The earth that’s nature’s motheris her tomb;

What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb…”

2.Vestiges (By Van Jordan)

“… and jump in the sea and say, follow me,

and know you would. The sea is cold

and it’s deep, too, I’d joke,

standing at the edge of the boat’s bow.

A wind breathes across the sea,

joining gently the edges of time.”

3.In the short lyric My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold, William Wordsworth remembers the joys of his past and says: “The child is father of the man…”

4.The Sick Rose, a short lyric written by William Blake

“O Rose thou art sick.

The invisible worm,

That flies in the night

In the howling storm:

Has found out thy bed

Of crimson joy;

And his dark secret love

Does thy life destroy”

5.The Tempest (By William Shakespeare)

“Hark, hark!

Bow-wow.

The watch-dogs bark!

Bow-wow.

Hark, hark! I hear

The strain of strutting chanticleer

Cry, ‘cock-a-diddle-dow!'”

6.The Rain (By William H. Davies)

“I hear leaves drinking rain;

I hear rich leaves on top

Giving the poor beneath

Drop after drop;

7.Lord Jim (By Joseph Conrad)

“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.”

8.I carry your heart with me (By E. E. Cummings)

“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant

and whatever a sun will always sing is you …”

9.My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (By William Wordsworth)

“My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old, …”

10.Because I could not stop for Death (By Emily Dickinson)

“Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –”

IV Please analyze the poem in terms of its metrical rhythm, form, figure of speech and theme. (40’)

A Red, Red Rose

  Robert Burns

O my luve's like a red, red rose.

That's newly sprung in June;

O my luve's like a melodie

That's sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will love thee still, my Dear,

Till a'the seas gang dry.

Till a' the seas gang dry, my Dear,

And the rocks melt wi' the sun:

I will luve thee still, my Dear,

While the sands o'life shall run.

And fare thee weel my only Luve!

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my Luve,

Tho' it were ten thousand mile!