I am need help with these questions I keep getting the answer wrong can you help me by explaining why

Question

The way Cowley uses the phrase "my own country" is an example of
 
     A. simile.  
     B. consonance.
 
     C. repetition.
 
     D. personification.
 
  my answer is c

The phrase "mid-May" is an example of
 
     A. assonance.  
     B. consonance.
 
     C. alliteration.
 
     D. metaphor.
 
  my answer is d
 
During the Romantic period, poets placed an emphasis on
 
     A. discipline.  
     B. order.
 
     C. hierarchy.
 
     D. nature.

my answer a
 
Which one of the following words is an iamb?
 
     A. Rachel  
     B. Alice
 
     C. JoAnne
 
     D. Sally
 
  my answer a
 
The line "A tree whose hungry mouth is prest" is an example of iambic
 
     A. trimeter.  
     B. pentameter.
 
     C. tetrameter.
 
     D. dimeter.

my answer b
 
What is the most probable reason that rhyme and repetition first found their ways into poems?
 
     A. People wanted a beat they could dance to.  
     B. They were written for the upper class.
 
     C. Heroes in epics tended to talk that way.
 
     D. The poems were easier to remember and pass on.
 
  my answer is c
 
Which one of the poems you've read uses the words floats, fluttering, and dancing?
 
     A. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  
     B. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"
 
     C. "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?"
 
     D. "The Long Voyage"
 
My answer is c
 
Emphasizing the importance of order, law, discipline, and tradition is typical of _______ literature.
 
     A. Romantic  
     B. Classical
 
     C. discursive
 
     D. dramatic
 my answer is d

Which one of the following phrases is an example of consonance?
 
     A. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be  
     B. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines
 
     C. Drink to me only with thine eyes
 
     D. River birch and upland beech
 
my answer a

Which one of the poems you've read has the rhyme scheme AA BB CC . . . ?
 
     A. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"  
     B. "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds"
 
     C. "The Long Voyage"
 
     D. "Trees"
 
  my answer is b

15.   "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds" is an example of which type of poem?
 
     A. Narrative  
     B. Discursive
 
     C. Dramatic
 
     D. Descriptive
my answer is a

"Foam brightens like the dogwood now" is an example of
 
     A. a simile.  
     B. a metaphor.
 
     C. alliteration.
 
     D. consonance.

my answe is c
 
The rhyme scheme of Shakespeare' s sonnets is
 
     A. AABB CCDD EEFF GG.  
     B. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
 
     C. ABBA CDDC EFFE GG.
 
     D. ABCD ABCD ABCD GG.
 
  I guess this was d (I didn't really under stand so I guessed

Who are the "fools" mentioned in the poem "Trees"?
 
     A. Poets  
     B. Gods
 
     C. Trees
 
     D. Robins
 my answer a

Writeacher · Answer

1. Who is Cowley and what's the title of the work?

2. "mid-May" - m..m.. = alliteration
http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/alliteration.html

3. Romantic = nature
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_R.html
Scroll down and read about Romanticism.

4. An iamb has two syllables, with the stress on the second syllable. Rachel, Alice, and Sally all have the stress on the first syllable.
http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/lit_terms_M.html
Scroll down and read about Meter.

5. Pentameter means five "feet" to the line. Which one means four "feet" to the line? http://www.answers.com
A "foot" in poetry is the number of syllables in whatever type of meter the poet is writing in. Iambic anything means two syllables in each foot, and this line has eight syllables, therefore four feet.

6. Either A or D -- my preference is D.

7. I haven't read those; go back and read them all, and it should be clear.

8. http://www.answers.com/romantic
and
http://www.answers.com/classical
and

http://www.answers.com/discursive
and
http://www.answers.com/dramatic
Which one?

9. http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/consonance.html

10. You have the means to look up each of those terms in the links I've already given you.

11. http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha3.htm Look at the ends of the lines and let me know what YOU think the rhyme scheme is.

12. http://www.bartleby.com/104/119.html
Very obvious if you read carefully.

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Courtney · Answer

1. C Correct
2. B Correct
3. D C STUDY GUID 98-100
4. A Correct
5. C Correct
6. C Correct
7. D Correct
8. C Correct
9. C Correct
10. D Correct
11. A Correct
12. C B STUDY GUID 94-96
13. D Correct
14. D Correct
15. B Correct
16. A Correct
17. B Correct
18. A Correct
19. C B STUDY GUID 89-93
20. A Correct