an image that simultaneously represents itself and something else
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When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
Source: Lowell, Amy. "The Taxi." The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011.
Each of the following types of figurative language is used in the excerpt except __________.
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allusion
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I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek).
Source: Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011.
Which excerpt best illustrates a contemplative mood?
answer
"Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:"
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"Simile"
by N. Scott Momaday
What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight
Source: Momaday, N. Scott. "Simile." The Language of Literature. New York: McDougal Littell, 2006. 265. Print.
Which statement about the poem is false?
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The subject of the poem is deer and the flight risk that they pose.
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What is a key reason to include metaphors in a literary work?
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to create new and surprising comparisons and deepen understanding
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Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways).
Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011.
Which excerpt is a simile that indicates a thoughtful mood?
answer
"I swear she cast a shadow white as stone."
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Which of the following is a key reason to include allusions in a literary work?
answer
to broaden the context and deepen the meaning of a literary work
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"Happiness Epidemic"
by David Hernandez
Without any warning, the disease
sweeps across the country
like a traveling circus.
People who were once blue,
who slouched from carrying
a bag of misery over one shoulder
are now clinically cheerful.
Symptoms include kind gestures,
a bouncy stride, a smile
bigger than a slice of cantaloupe.
You pray that you will be infected,
hope a happy germ invades your body
and multiplies, spreading merriment
to all your major organs
like door-to-door Christmas carolers
until the virus finally reaches your heart:
that red house at the end of the block
where your deepest wishes reside,
where a dog howls behind a gate
every time that sorrow
pulls his hearse up the driveway.
Source: Hernandez, David. "Happiness Epidemic." Casa Poema. Casa Poem, n.d. Web. 6 June 2011.
Which poetic technique is illustrated throughout the entire poem "Happiness Epidemic"?
answer
conceit
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I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek).
Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011.
All of these types of figurative language appear in the excerpt above except __________.
answer
simile
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"Metonymy" is best defined as a figure of speech in which __________.
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one noun is substituted for another with which it is closely associated
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She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved).
Source: Roethke, Theodore. "I Knew a Woman." The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. New York: Random House Inc., 1961. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June 2011.
Which of the following images from the excerpt indicates an exhilarated mood?
I. "She played it quick, she played it light and loose;"
II. "My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;"
III. "(She moved in circles, and those circles moved)."
answer
I, II, and III
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When it comes, the landscape listens,
Shadows hold their breath.
Source: Dickinson, Emily. "There's a certain Slant of light." The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R. W. Franklin. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1999. Poetry Foundation. Web. 9 June. 2011.
Which technique does this excerpt use?
answer
personification
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"Simile"
by N. Scott Momaday
What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight
Source: Momaday, N. Scott. "Simile." The Language of Literature. New York: McDougal Littell, 2006. 265. Print.
Which of the following excerpts illustrates the theme that people are cautious around those who have hurt them?
answer
I, II, and III
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"Simile"
by N. Scott Momaday
What did we say to each other
that now we are as the deer
who walk in single file
with heads high
with ears forward
with eyes watchful
with hooves always placed on firm ground
in whose limbs there is latent flight
Source: Momaday, N. Scott. "Simile." The Language of Literature. New York: McDougal Littell, 2006. 265. Print.
Which of the following techniques does this poem use?
answer
I and II
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"She Walks in Beauty"
by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Source: Byron, George Gordon. "She Walks in Beauty." Poetry.org. The Academy of American Poets, n.d. Web. 19 July 2011.
Which excerpt best reflects Byron's appreciation of beauty?
answer
"the nameless grace/Which waves in every raven tress"
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What is the definition of "ballad"?
answer
a narrative song or poem that follows a pattern of rhyme and meter
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"The Taxi"
by Amy Lowell
When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.
I call out for you against the jutted stars
And shout into the ridges of the wind.
Streets coming fast,
One after the other,
Wedge you away from me,
And the lamps of the city prick my eyes
So that I can no longer see your face.
Why should I leave you,
To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
Source: Lowell, Amy. "The Taxi." Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds. New York: MacMillan Co., 1914. Google Books. Web. 29 June 2011.
Which line from the poem does not include an example of imagery?
answer
"When I go away from you"
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