Understanding Terminology That Describes Poetry

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Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?

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Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?

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When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least,

Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

(Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate,

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

What is the rhyme scheme of the given passage?

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When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,

I all alone beweep my outcast state,

And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,

And look upon myself and curse my fate,

Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,

Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,

Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,

With what I most enjoy contented least,

Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,

Haply I think on thee, and then my state,

(Like to the lark at break of day arising

From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate,

For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,

That then I scorn to change my state with kings.

What is the rhyme scheme of the given passage?

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A poem that is a lamentation for the dead is called __________.

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A poem that is a lamentation for the dead is called __________.

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Which modernist poet is famous for his admonition to "Make it new?"

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Which modernist poet is famous for his admonition to "Make it new?"

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The poetic technique known as alliteration refers to __________.

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What kinds of poems are made up of fourteen lines, iambic pentameter, and end in a rhyming couplet?

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