Review Quiz: Chapters 1-3
A fill-in review of Perrine's first three chapters: what poetry is, reading the poem, and denotation and connotation.
ENGLISH 12AP : Literature and Composition
Quiz – Ch. 1-3
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.According to Perrine, “Poetry takes all life as its province. It primary concern is not with beauty, not with philosophical truth, not with persuasion, but with .” [expression, experience, exegesis]
2.What type of language is used to communicate information to an audience? [hortatory, , literary, practical]
3.What type of language is used to persuade to an audience? [hortatory, , literary, practical]
4.What type of language is used to intensify and increase the range of experience? [hortatory, , literary, practical]
5.According to Perrine, does poetry analyze or does it synthesize experience?
6.According to Perrine, does poetry aim to achieve the participation of the reader or to describe experience to the reader?
7.List three of the four dimensions Perrine attributes to poetry. [Use blanks 7-9.]
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10.Cite one purpose Perrine asserts that some readers wrongly look for in poetry.
11.What are the three component parts of the average word? [Use blanks 11-13.]
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14.Of those three term, which identifies the “basic dictionary meaning of a word’?
15.Of those three term, which identifies “the overtones of meaning of a word”?
16.How many denotations is the practical writer or speaker interested in when he or she chooses a word?
17.What is the purest form of practical language? (That is, in what type of writing will the use of language be most precise in meaning?)
18.What is the fullest use of language? (That is, in what type of writing will the use of language take the fullest advantage of the range of meanings of words?)
19.What two means of developing a sense of language or feeling for words does Perrine offer? [Use blanks
20.19 & 20.]
BONUS:
A.Go back to questions 7-8. In blank A, write the fourth dimension Perrine attributes to poetry.