Fill-in Quiz: What Is Poetry?
Short-answer questions on Perrine's chapter "What Is Poetry?"
ENGLISH 11AP: Literature and Composition
Quiz - What Is Poetry?
Name
Date Per.
Mr. Reed
1.According to Perrine, “Poetry takes all life as its province. Its primary concern is not with beauty, not with philosophical truth, not with persuasion, but with .” [expression, experience, exegesis]
2.What is the purpose of practical language? (That is, what is it we attempt to communicate with practical language? I am not asking for an example.)
3.Give one example of the use of persuasive language?
4.What is the purpose of literary language? (That is, what is it we attempt to communicate with literary language? I am not asking for an example.)
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.
BONUS:
A.Go back to questions 7-9. In blank A, write the fourth dimension Perrine attributes to poetry.