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Lit Test
4 poems and short stories
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ray Bradbury (SR) | There Will Come Soft Rains(SR) |
| Narrator(SR) | The Old Clocks(SR) |
| Setting(SR) | California(SR) |
| Main Characters(SR) | walls, mice, snakes cats, clocks(SR) |
| Central/Main Conflict(SR) | futuristic houses(SR) |
| Plot Beginning events and exposition(SR) | breakfast/morning(SR) |
| Rising action(SR) | mice cleaning/dog dying(SR) |
| climax(SR) | tree falls and house catches on fire(SR) |
| falling action(SR) | collapse(SR) |
| Resolution(SR) | 1 wall still standing(SR) |
| Central theme(SR) | be aware of technology good/bad(SR) |
| compare/contrast(SR) | house to humans(SR) |
| foreshadowing(SR) | the house stood alone in sea of rubble(SR) |
| imagery(SR) | lots of it(SR) |
| Situational irony(SR) | the poem in the house(SR) |
| Onamatopoeia(SR) | tick tock, slammed words, (SR) |
| personification(SR) | house shuddered ,angry mice pips(SR) |
| Poet(SRWT) | Sara Teasdale(SRWT) |
| persona(SRWT) | detached(SWRT) |
| Point of view(SWRT) | first(SWRT) |
| Tone(SWRT) | calm, resigned, judgmental(SWRT) |
| rhyme scheme(SWRT) | aabbccddeeff)SWRT) |
| characters(SWRT) | narrator robin frogs(SWRT) |
| Subject(SWRT) | bomb(SWRT) |
| Type of poem(SWRT) | lyric(SWRT) |
| theme(SWRT) | doesnt really matter(SwRT) |
| Alliteration(SWRT) | peaceful whispering rain, feathers ruffling, soft gentle sands(SWRT) |
| Metaphor(SWRT) | spring, dawn=new age(SWRT) |
| Robert Frost(f.I) | Fire and ice |
| Persona (F/I) | pessimistic(F/I) |
| Point of View(F/I) | first person (F/I) |
| Rhyme Scheme(F/I) | abaabcb(F/I) |
| Characters(F/I) | Robert Frost(F/I) |
| Subject, Theme and Type(F/I)n | World Ending, Lyric, world ending in two ways(F/I) |
| Figurative Language and Literal Language(F/I) | Fire and Ice(F/I) |
| Richard Brautigan | Author of All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace |
| point of view and tone(MA) | First person and hopeful but worried(MA) |
| Rhyme scheme and # of lines(MA) | abcdefg and 23(MA) |
| Characters(MA) | mammals,deer, brothers and sisters |
| Subject and future(MA) | animals and future(MA) |
| Personification(MA) | machines watch over us(MA) |
| Published in 1956 and Edwin Muir(H) | The Horses(H) |
| Speaker, persona, point of view and Tone(H) | Survivor of apocalypse,determined, first person, disillusioned, hopeful |
| Free verse-no rhyme scheme(h) | The Horses(H) |
| Characters(H) | survivors of war, oxen, horses(H) |
| Type, Theme(H) | Lyric, one little thing can spark hope or there can be rebirth and renewal after devastation (H) |
| Metaphor(H) | nations lying asleep, old bad world that swallowed |
| Euphemism(H) | put the world to sleep(H) |
Created by:
mcatoe
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