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1 point

Which of the following describes the first four lines of ""When I heard the learn'd astronomer"?

anaphora

each line gets progressively longer

use of passive verbs

all of the above

1 point

Which of the following best demonstrates the structure of "Those Winter Sundays"? (choose the best answer)

a consistent meter and rhyme scheme

a Shakespearian sonnet

three groups of non rhyming lines that you could loosely call stanzas

a Petrarchan sonnet

1 point

The poem, "Death be not proud" is an example of: (check one)

a quatrain

a couplet

a Petrarchan sonnet

a sestet

1 point

John Donne, the author of "Death be not proud" created a logical argument in his poem using the connectors, such as "because," "then," and "therefore."

True

False

1 point

Walt Whitman's poem is in free-verse, which means there is no predictable rhythmic or rhyme scheme.

True

False

1 point

What describes line 13 in "Death be not proud"? (caution: for credit, check all that apply!)

alliteration on the "w"

alliteration on the "s"

rhyming with the last word of line 12

four monosyllabic words

1 point

In the end of the analysis, "Death be not proud" makes which of the following arguments according to our author? (Choose only one--the best answer)

Death is beautiful

Death is powerful and strong

Death has no reason to be proud

1 point

The turn from the octave to the sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet often goes along with a shift in meaning.

True

False

1 point

What happens in the first line of "Death be not proud"?

alliteration on the first and last syllable

a direct address to Death in the second person

an apostrophe

a command

all of the above

10.

1 point

In "Those Winter Sundays" it is clear that the speaker of the poem (as opposed to the author) is a male.

True

False

11.

1 point

What accurately describes the poem "Mid-Term Break"? (for credit, check ALL that apply)

the tone is joyful

all of the lines rhyme in the poem

the poet has to go home for a funeral

it is made of up tercets

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