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Humanities CLEP - Poetry withverified solutions 2025-
2026(graded A+)
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
These lines were written by - answer Geoffrey Chaucer
The words "bark," "bow-wow," and "Cock-a-doodle-doo" are
examples of - answer Onomatopoeia
The dictionary definition of a word is its ____________. - answer
Denotation
________ is the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of
sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on
scrolls of silver snowy sentences". - answer Alliteration
The poem Death, be not proud was written by - answer John Donne
What is the theme of John Milton's Paradise Lost? - answer
Expulsion from Eden
'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
, The sound must seem an echo to the sense:
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
Identify the allusion in the above passage. - answer Zephyr
Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, he wrote The Rape of Lucrece
and Venus and Adonis.
Identify this author. - answer William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism introduced which famous
phrase? - answer "A little learning is a dangerous thing."
The contrasting poems The Tiger and The Lamb were written by -
answer William Blake
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!
These lines are the closing stanza to which poem? - answer O, My
Luve is Like a Red Red Rose
My old man's a white old man
And my old mother's black.
If I ever cursed my white old man
I take my curses back.
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