Poetry Exam: Definitions and Figures of Speech

• This is a poetry assignment for UAO/UFR LL / Département d'Anglais / EPREUVE DE POETRY / 1ère Session, academic year 2024-2025, Licence 1/1 H 30

Exercise I: Definitions

• Define the following types of poems:
  • Dirge
  • Ode
  • Free verse
  • Blank verse
  • Sonnet
• Each correct answer is worth 1.5 points

Exercise II: Tropes

• Identify and define three figures of speech in William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" for 9 points
• The poem extract is:
  • "I wandered lonely as a cloud
  • That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
  • When all at once I saw a crowd,
  • A host, of golden daffodils;
  • Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
  • Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
  • Continuous as the stars that shine
  • And twinkle on the milky way,
  • They stretched in never-ending line
  • Along the margin of a bay:
  • Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
  • Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."
• Give the name of the trope in this passage from Walt Whitman's poem "As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life" and justify the answer, this is worth 3.5 points
• The excerpt is:
  • "As I ebb'd with the ocean of life,
  • As I wended the shores I know,
  • As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok."