Read the first lines of the poem "Because I could not stop for Death.

"

Because I could not stop for Death

He kindly stopped for me.

What type of figurative language does Death represent in these lines?

1. personification
2. allusion
3. imagery
4. idiom

1. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

Roses are red.

Violets are blue.
Sugar is sweet,
And so are you.

a. abab b. aabb c. abba d. abcb e. abac f. aaaa

2. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

I want to come out and play.

I think that I could play all day.
So, my friend, what do you say?
Will you come outside and play?

a. abab b. aabb c. abba c. abcb d. abac e. aaaa

3. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,

Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither'd from the lake,
And no birds sing.

a. abab b. aabb c. abba d. abcb e. abac f. aaaa

4. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

Tyger, tyger burning bright

In the forest of the night.
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

a. abab b. aabb c. abba d. abcb e. abac f. aaaa

5. Identify the type of couplet.

Here lies my wife: here let her lie!

Now she’s at rest – and so am I.

a. Rhyming couplet b. Non-rhyming couplet

6. Identify the type of couplet.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

a. Heroic couplet b. Elegiac couplet c. Chinese couplet d. Sonnet couplet

7. Which line below contains an example of direct address?

a. “If ever two were one, then surely we”

b. “Thy holy word my distaff make for me”
c. “My words, and actions, that their shine may fill”
d. “And make Thy holy spirit, Lord, wind quills”
8. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

a. abab b. aabb c. abba d. abcb e. abac f. aaaa

9. Identify the type of couplet.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

a. Heroic couplet b. Elegiac couplet c. Chinese couplet d. Sonnet couplet

10. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

abab
aabb
abba
abcb
abac
aaaa
11. Identify the type of couplet.

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any she belied with false compare.

Heroic couplet
Elegiac couplet
Chinese couplet
Sonnet couplet
12. Identify the rhyme scheme of the quatrain.

I am a man upon the land

I am a silkie on the sea
and when I'm far and far frae land
my home it is in Sule Skerry.
 abab
aabb
abba
abcb
abac
aaaa
13. In Flanders there was once a company
Of youngsters wedded to such sin and folly
As gaming, dicing, brothels, and taverns,
Where, night and day, with harps, lutes, and citherns,
They spend their time in dicing and in dancing,
Eating and drinking more than they can carry;
And with these abominable excesses
They offer up the vilest sacrifices . . .

Which word best characterizes the young people in this passage?

humble
nervous
sensitive
immoral
14. The traditional aim of a poet is to confuse the reader.

True
False

Thantopsis by William Cullen Bryant

To him who in the love of Nature holds

Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language; for his gayer hours
She has a voice of gladness, and a smile
And eloquence of beauty, and she glides
Into his darker musings, with a mild
And gentle sympathy, that steals away
Their sharpness, ere he is aware. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;--
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings, while from all around--
Earth and her waters, and the depths of air,--
Comes a still voice--Yet a few days, and thee
The all-beholding sun shall see no more
In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground,
Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears,
Nor in the embrace of ocean shall exist
Thy image. Earth, that hourished thee, shall claim
Thy growth, to be resolv'd to earth again;
And, lost each human trace, surrend'ring up
Thine individual being, shalt thou go
To mix forever with the elements,
To be a brother to th' insensible rock
And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain
Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak
Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould.
Yet not to thy eternal resting place
Shalt thou retire alone--nor couldst thou wish
Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down
, With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings
The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
All in one mighty sepulchre.--The hills
Rock-ribb'd and ancient as the sun,--the vales
Stretching in pensive quietness between;
The vernal woods--rivers that move
In majesty, and the complaining brooks
That make the meadows green; and pour'd round all,
Old ocean's grey and melancholy waste,--
Are but the solemn decorations all
Of the great tomb of man. The golden sun,
The planets, all the infinite host of heaven,
Are shining on the sad abodes of death,
Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its bosom.--Take the wings
Of morning--and the Barcan desert pierce,
Or lost thyself in the continuous woods
Where rolls the Oregan, and hears no sound,
Save his own dashings--yet--the dead are there,
And millions in those solitudes, since first
The flight of years began, have laid them down
In their last sleep--the dead reign there alone.--
So shalt thou rest--and what if thou shalt fall
Unnoticed by the living--and no friend
Take note of thy departure? All that breathe
Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh,
When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care
Plod on, and each one as before will chase
His favourite phantom; yet all these shall leave
Their mirth and their employments, and shall come,
And make their bed with thee. As the long train
Of ages glide away, the sons of men,
The youth in life's green spring, and he who goes
In the full strength of years, matron, and maid,
The bow'd with age, the infant in the smiles
And beauty of its innocent age cut off,--
Shall one by one be gathered to thy side,
By those, who in their turn shall follow them.
So live, that when thy summons comes to join
The innumerable caravan, that moves
To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death,
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but sustain'd and sooth'd
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave,
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

15. Explain the simile in lines 78-79. How should we not approach dying?

like someone who must be dragged toward death

like someone who just lies down and naps
like someone who is content to go to Heaven
like a rabid animal
16. The speaker in Thanatopsis thinks people should be afraid of death.

True
False
17. When thoughts
Of the last bitter hour come like a blight
Over thy spirit, and sad images
Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall,
And breathless darkness, and the narrow house,
Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart;--"

What does the speaker advise the reader to do when the thoughts like those above come?

Run like the wind

Cower in fear
Go out into nature
Relax and smile
18. The poem says that when one lies down in death, one will not lie down alone. In fact, those who die will be
accompanied by...

All who have died

Some of the noblest people, including kings
Friends and family
The Earth in all its glory
19.
According to the poem, people keep their individuality after death.

True
False
20. What does the speaker compare the earth to near the end of the poem?

A healing force
A loving mother
An equal playing field
A large grave
21. What literacy device is the word "snicker-snack" an example of?

Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Symbolism
22. In writing Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare was gently poking fun at the conventional romantic poems that were
being written by other poets. In pointing out that his mistress' eyes are not more beautiful than the sun, that her hair is
not made of gold threads, that her cheeks are not as red as roses and that her breath is not finer than perfume, he was
able to make the argument that he loves her just the same for who she is and not for an unrealistic idealized notion of
beauty.

What is this an example of?

Personification
Simile
Satire
Metaphor
23. What does the phrase "my heart leaps up..." mean in the following lines?

"My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky..."

His heart is beating fast.

He is getting old.
He doesn't like nature.
He is very happy.
24. In "Analysis of Baseball," the words dud, thwack, and pow are an example of which sound device?

alliteration
assonance
consonance
onomatopoeia
25. What figure of speech do these lines from "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" illustrate?

The waves beside them danced; but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee.

simile
metaphor
paradox
personification
26. In Sonnet 130, William Shakespeare draws on sight, sound and smell when he compares his mistress' eyes to the
sun, her lips to red coral, her breasts to white snow, her hair to black wires, her cheeks to red and white roses, her
breath to perfume and her voice to music.

Which literary element is being used?

Repetition
Rhyme
Imagery
Alliteration
27. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" produces the following observations:
ababcc - the rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza produces a natural break to go along with the natural break
caused by a new stanza.

The rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza is known as being part of the .

Rhyme
 Rhyming Scheme
Alliteration
Assonance
28. An analysis of "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" produces the following observations:

What creates a song like a rhythm to which daffodils might dance?

Connotation
Meter
Rhyme
Assonance

The Bells by Edgar Allen Poe

Hear the sledges with the bells -

Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

II

Hear the mellow wedding bells -

Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight! -
From the molten - golden notes,
And all in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats
To the turtle - dove that listens, while she gloats
On the moon!
Oh, from out the sounding cells,
What a gush of euphony voluminously wells!
How it swells!
How it dwells
On the Future! - how it tells
Of the rapture that impels
To the swinging and the ringing
Of the bells, bells, bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
III

Hear the loud alarum bells -

Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
In the startled ear of night
How they scream out their affright!
Too much horrified to speak,
They can only shriek, shriek,
Out of tune,
In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire,
In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire,
Leaping higher, higher, higher,
With a desperate desire,
And a resolute endeavor
Now - now to sit, or never,
By the side of the pale - faced moon.
Oh, the bells, bells, bells!
What a tale their terror tells
Of Despair!
How they clang, and clash and roar!
What a horror they outpour
On the bosom of the palpitating air!
Yet the ear, it fully knows,
By the twanging,
And the clanging,
How the danger ebbs and flows;
Yet the ear distinctly tells,
In the jangling,
And the wrangling,
How the danger sinks and swells,
By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells -
Of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
In the clamor and the clanging of the bells!

IV

Hear the tolling of the bells -

Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people - ah, the people -
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone -
They are neither man nor woman -
They are neither brute nor human -
They are Ghouls: -
And their king it is who tolls: -
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls
A paean from the bells!
And his merry bosom swells
With the paean of the bells!
And he dances, and he yells;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the paean of the bells: -
Of the bells:
Keeping time, time, time
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the throbbing of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells: -
To the sobbing of the bells: -
Keeping time, time, time,
As he knells, knells, knells,
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells -
To the tolling of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells, -
To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

29. In "The Bells," which of the following emotions does Edgar Allan Poe focus on?

anger and envy

joy, fear, and grief
pity and fear
love and unselfishness
30. To which of the five senses do these lines from "The Bells" appeal?
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
In the icy air of night!
While the stars, the oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
with a crystalline delight

sight and smell

taste and touch
sight, hearing and touch
hearing and taste
31. Which of the following statements about "The Bells" is accurate?
 Poe uses very few onomatopoetic words.
There is no repetition in the poem.
Poe ignores the topics of war and despair.
The poem's mood changes markedly.
32. What is Poe's primary purpose in "The Bells"?

to describe the emotions of joy, happiness, fear, and grief

to express the deeper meanings of bells that are rung on various occasions
to symbolize the stages of a person's life
to warn people of the constant nearness of death
33. Provide an example of onomatopoeia from the first stanza of "The Bells".
___________________________
34. (Story Elements) In what stanza does the mood change from happier to sadder?

Stanza 1
Stanza 2
Stanza 3
Stanza 4
35. (poetic devices) How can you tell that the bells are ringing constantly?

The discussion of the different phases of life

The constant repetition of the word bells
The use of onomatopoeia
The general happy tone of the poem
36. How many different types of bells are described in the poem?

2
4
8
37.