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,Question 1 In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep
weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that .
Selected Answer: the boy is too young to articulate clearly, let alone sweep chimneys
Question 2 The dream in lines 1120 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the
world in which the boys live. The “coffins of black” (line 12) represent .
Selected Answer: life (X)
Question 3 In line 3, the boy is calling out his trade; instead of “sweep,” he cries “weep weep
weep weep.” This is the poet’s way of telling the reader that .
Selected Answer: the boy is pitiable and that the reader should weep over his plight
Question 4 The poet protests against child labor and condemns the harm done to children
exploited in this practice. Yet in lines 2324, the child narrator writes that “Tho' the morning was
cold, Tom was happy and warm / So if all do their duty, they need not fear harm.” This is
dramatic irony in the sense that .
Selected Answer: the poet knows and sees more than the child does
Question 5 The dream in lines 1120 is a miniature allegory that has several analogies to the
world in which the boys live. The “Angel who had a bright key /And … open'd the coffins and
set them all free” (line 1314) represents .
Selected Answer: a messenger from God who sets the boys free with the key of death and blissful
life in heaven
Question 6 The poem, "Ulysses," was written by William
Blake. Selected Answer: False
Question 7 This poem by Robert Frost makes an allusion to Shakespeare's play Macbeth.
Selected Answer: "Out, Out"
Question 8 "Fern Hill" followed upon the Industrial Revolution which ushered in major changes
in thought.
Selected Answer: False
Question 9 Lines 14 of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” reads: THE WORLD is charged with
, the grandeur of God / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; / It gathers to a greatness,
like the ooze of oil / Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?” The word “rod” is a
metaphor or symbol for .
Selected Answer: God’s authority and chastening
power Question 10 All poems have an end rhyme
scheme.
Selected Answer: False
Question 11 Theme is the unifying generalization of a literary
work. Selected Answer: True
Question 12 "Dover Beach" alludes to
Horace. Selected Answer: False
Question 13 Emily Dickinson authored the poem, "It Sifts from Leaden
Sieves." Selected Answer: True
Question 14 According to the worktext/textbook, is a writer's or speaker's attitude toward
the subject, the audience, or herself or himself.
Selected Answer: tone
Question 15 Tennyson's "Ulysses" is a symbol of the existential
dilemma. Selected Answer: True
Question 16 Monometer is a metrical line containing one
foot. Selected Answer: True
Question 17 A metaphor may have one of four
forms. Selected Answer: True
Question 18 The bald eagle represents freedom, majesty, and strength. This is an example of
a(n) Selected Answer: symbol
Question 19 Lines 912 of William Shakespeare’s "That Time of Year…" reads: “In me thou seest
the glowing of such fire, / That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, / As the deathbed
whereon it must expire, / Consum’d with that which it was nourish’d by.” In these lines, the
speaker metaphorically