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moderns poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following pairs of lines is an example of blank verse? | "He's worn out. He's asleep beside the stove. / When I came up from Rowe's I found him here . . ." |
| The gold is "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is a symbol of | fleeting beauty and perfection |
| Frost uses which of the following two meters? | strict iambic and loose iambic |
| Which poem expresses pessimism about our ability to grasp the calamity that awaits humankind? | "Once by the Pacific" |
| Which of the following best describes the blank verse? | unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| In "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep," one reason people look at the ocean rather that at the land may be because they are | intrigued by mystery |
| According to Frost, the boy who swings on birch trees experiences | the pleasures of both heaven and earth |
| In "Design," the overall imagery suggests that | evil may masquerade as innocence |
| The main subject of the poem is | the power of love |
| Which of the following poetic devices does Millay use to repeatedly in the poem? | parallelism |
| Millay intends the image of the weeping woman to have a | strict denotation |
| The poet's use of repetition in the poem creates a | lilting, happy mood |
| The positive images in Millay's poem include all of the following except | tombstones |
| Who is the "we" on the poem? | a speaker and her lover |
| The main setting of "Recuerdo" is | a trip on a ferryboat |
| In the last stanza of "Tableau," the boys | happily continue walking |
| How do other people react to the behavior of the two boys in "Tableau"? | They are upset by the display. |
| While riding through Baltimore, the speaker in "Incident" at first feels | happy and optimistic |
| Upon seeing another boy, the speaker in "Incident" | tries to be friendly |
| In "Tableau," the boys are walking together because they | enjoy each other's company |
| How do the rhythm and rhyme contribute to the theme of "Incident"? | Their simplicity contrasts with the serious theme of the poem. |
| There is irony in the apparently simple title "Incident" because the poem describes | an event with serious consequences |
| "Tableau" seems to present a simple picture, but the larger focus of the poem is the | state of race relations |
| In "Incident," the encounter with the boys in Baltimore | has a strong impression of the speaker |
| Cullen uses lightning as imagery in the last stanza to illustrate all of the following except | the destruction the boys' relationship will bring |
| The speaker in "Harlem" uses "we" to refer to | African Americans in Harlem |
| Rhythms in "The Weary Blues" | reflect the rhythms of blues music |
| The tone of a work refers to the | attitude of the writer |
| According to the speaker in "Harlem," conditions for people living in harlem | have not changed much over the years |
| The type of poetry that could best accommodate the "syncopated rhythm referred to in "The Weary Blues" is | free verse |
| The musician in "The Weary Blues" feels tired because he | can't find satisfaction |
| "Harlem" conveys all of the following except | caution |
| In the final stanza of "Harlem," people | talk about the civil rights movement |
| The song performed in "The Weary Blues" addresses | All people who are unhappy |
| At the end of "The Weary Blues," the musician | sleeps like the dead |
| The image of the wife pulling flowers as a child is meant to communicate that | she is mischievous |
| Which of the following quotations from the poem is the best example of an objective correlative? | "The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead" |
| In "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter," the speaker recalls how she first met her husband | when they were children |
| In her loneliness, the speaker finds it painful even to watch | a pair of butterflies |
| The image of the monkeys making sorrowful sounds is meant to communicate that | the wife is sad |
| The couple became separated when the husband | left home on business |
| Which of the following details is the best example of an objective correlative in the poem? | the butterflies |
| The speaker describes her behavior during the early days of the marriage as | shy and somber |
| The image in " The Great Figure" primarily appeal to readers' senses of | sight and hearing |
| "The Red Wheelbarrow" depicts a | realistic scene |
| The poem "The Great Figure" creates an overall impression of | dramatic action |
| "The Red Wheelbarrow"has all of the following characteristics except that it | uses a set rhyme scheme |
| One of the points Williams makes in "Spring and All" is that | from seeming death comes life |
| Williams's poems can best be describes as | deceptively simple |
| In "Spring and All," spring brings all of the following except | creativity |
| The speaker in "The Red Wheelbarrow" | emphasizes the importance of images |
| The scene of "The Great Figure" literally refer to? | rainy night on a city street |
| The poem "Spring and All" is about the coming of spring, and, on a symbolic level, | the birth of babies |
| What does the title of "The Great Figure" literally refer to? | the number 5 |
| Williams uses all of the following images in "The Great Figure" except | tolling bells |
| In "Spring and All," Williams creates the feeling of spring through all of the following except | bright colors |
| In "Spring and All," Williams contrasts | blue clouds and brown fields |
| To describe the images in "The Red Wheelbarrow," Williams uses | colors and simple language |
| In "what if a much of a which of a wind," the images describe | the destruction of the universe |
| The speaker of "somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond" compares himself to | a flower |
| "Chicago" opens with a description of the city's reputation as a center for | railroads, manufacturing, and stockyards |
| "Chicago" makes use of apostrophe in that the | speaker expresses his dislike of the city |
| In Sandburg's poem, the speaker compares Chicago to a | fighter who has never lost a battle |
| Cummings's poem "what if a much of a which of a wind," expresses the speaker's confidence in | humanity |
| The speaker of "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond" fears | being rejected |
| In the poem "Chicago," the speaker's attitude toward Chicago is | admiring and affectionate |
| The use of apostrophe in "Chicago" | gives the poem immediacy |
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MariahRogers