Poetry Video

Which of these was NOT a metaphor included in the video & used by poets to describe poems?

• a little machine

• a tiny frog

• a dream

• a firework

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Which of the following was NOT listed as one of poetry's recognizable characteristics in the video?

• features condensed language

• emphasizes language's musical qualities

• often features intense feelings

• follows a pattern or set of rules

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The video claimed that THIS specific form is "inseparable" from "rhyme, rhythm, and imagery"

• rap

• art

• prose

• speech

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The video claims that _____________________ help us "navigate the rhythms of the poem" and therefore help us recognize it.

• vivid images

• line breaks

• intense feelings

• metaphors

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The metaphor used by the poem to emphasize the importance of "condensed language" in the video was

• "like a tiny frog bursting from the pond"

• "like a little machine"

• "like literature with all the water wrung out of it"

• "like Muhammad Ali's shortest known poem"

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The video claims that paragraphs CAN be poems because...

• featuring vivid images and wordplay makes them poems (in prose form).

• the ancient Greeks wrote them, as "poesis"

• they explain what it is to be human creatively

• all hymns, speeches, and social media posts are also poems

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The video claimed we can find poetic styles in all sorts of places that are not specifically poems alone. Of the list below, which is the only one the video did not suggest?

• a speech

• social media

• a police report

• a spiritual song/hymn

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Researchers at Dartmouth College tested whether robots (AI) could successfully mimic poets and make poems. When tested by a panel of judges, the robots' poems were identified_____________.

• 50% of the time

• 20% of the time

• 90% of the time

• 100% of the time

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