03.02 Poetry Handbook Imagery, Mood, And Tone Quiz

27 August 2022
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to sight?
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The dark wood stands in the mist like a somber island
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to touch?
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Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to hearing?
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Time, above me, within me, crashed its gongs
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Which sense does the imagery in this line appeal to? And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls,
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Sight
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Which word best describes the mood of this stanza from Edgar Allen Poe's "A Dream?" (10 points) In visions of the dark nightI have dreamed of joy departed—But a waking dreams of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.
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sorrowful
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Which lines best depict a contemplative mood?
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Around us shadows and the wind/Listened for what was never spoken.
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Which word best describes the tone of this stanza from Blake's "Night?" The sun descending in the West,The evening star does shine;The birds are silent in their nest,And I must seek for mine.The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delight,Sits and smiles on the night.
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Soothing
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Which word best describes the tone of this stanza from Thomas Hardy's "The Going?" Why did you give no hint that nightThat quickly after the morrow's dawn,And calmly, as if indifferent quite,You would close your term here, up and be goneWhere I could not followWith wing of swallowTo gain one glimpse of you ever anon!
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Dejected
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to sight?
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And the clouds float away in a red-splashed light.
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to touch?
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And, numb with sudden pangs, each arm hangs slack.
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Which of these lines contains imagery that appeals to hearing?
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The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
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Which sense does the imagery in this line appeal to? And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling;
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Hearing
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Which word best describes the mood of this stanza from Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven?" Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."'Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—Only this, and nothing more."
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Gloomy