Poetry Terms Review

This is for all you people out there who have to memorize poetry terms for the AP English Literature test. I have to fit one hundred and fifty characters into this box, but I can't think of anything else I want to tell you.

You've memorized the definitions, but can you put them into action? Again, for some reason, one hundred and fifty characters are required here, and I keep getting annoying, red error messages saying I don't have enough.

Created by: Jess
  1. "Death, be not proud" is an example of...
  2. "How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell / Striving to better, oft we mar what's well." This example BEST represents...
  3. Conceit / retreat is an example of...
  4. "He was a man of the cloth." This statement best illustrates...
  5. "Destroyed ambition's therapeutic game" (as a line of poetry) represents what kind of meter?
  6. An Italian/Petrarchan sonnet is characterized by...
  7. Waken / forsaken is an example of...
  8. "Thus, though we cannot make our sun / Stand still, then we shall make him run" (To His Coy Mistress) contains examples of...
  9. "Same laced fate" (shut up, I know that makes no sense) is an example of...
  10. "Death, thou shalt die" is an example of:
  11. A section or division of a long poem is called a...
  12. "Man proposes, God disposes" is an example of:
  13. "And I know it is right" as a line of poetry represents...
  14. A single, unified strain of exalted lyrical verse directed to a single purpose and dealing with one theme is...
  15. "Lost past" is an example of...
  16. "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is an example of...
  17. The speaker is also known as the..
  18. When you see 14 lines, what should you think?
  19. What is denotation?
  20. What is Mrs. Durham's cardinal rule of poetry?

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