Humanities CLEP - Poetry exam with complete solution 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 - Geoffrey Chaucer The words "bark," "bow-wow," and "Cock-a-doodle-doo" are examples of - Onomatopoeia The dictionary definition of a word is its ____________. - 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". - Alliteration The poem Death, be not proud was written by - John Donne What is the theme of John Milton's Paradise Lost? -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. - Zephyr Born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564, he wrote The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis.Identify this author. - William Shakespeare Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism introduced which famous phrase? - "A little learning is a dangerous thing." The contrasting poems The Tiger and The Lamb were written by - 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? - 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.