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Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."

He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, "Good fences make good neighbours."

Based on the excerpt, what does the speaker most likely think about the wall?
The wall protects his orchard.
The wall is in the wrong place.
The wall is too difficult to repair.
The wall is unnecessary.

Read the quotation from "A Hymn to the Evening".

"Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main
The pealing thunder shook the heav'nly plain"

Wheatley uses the word forsook to express the idea that the sun is
setting during the evening.
rising during the morning.
abandoning the speaker of the poem.
growing in size in the eastern sky.

A theme expressed in both "To My Dear Loving Husband" and "To the King's Most Excellent Majesty" is
.

Read the descriptions of rhyme schemes below.

Free verse: poetry that does not use a consistent rhyme scheme
Iambic pentameter: a poetic rhyme scheme in which each rhyming line has ten syllables
Blank verse: poetry that uses unrhymed iambic pentameter
Rhyming couplets: a series of two consecutive lines that rhyme in a poem

Based on the descriptions, what rhyme scheme does the poem "Harlem" use?
free verse
iambic pentameter
blank verse
couplets

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 100.”

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return, forgetful Muse, and straight redeem
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
If Time have any wrinkle graven there;
If any, be a satire to decay,
And make Time's spoils despised every where.
Give my love fame faster than Time wastes life;
So thou prevent'st his scythe and crooked knife.

The underlined section is referred to as a(n)

couplet
iamb.
pentameter.
quatrain.

Answer 1

1) The wall is unnecessary. — The speaker thinks the trees won't cross and implies the wall isn't needed.

2) Setting during the evening. — "Forsook the eastern main" means the sun left the eastern sky (it set).

3) A theme of devotion/loyalty. — Both poems express devoted loyalty (to a spouse and to the king).

4) Free verse. — "Harlem" does not use a consistent rhyme scheme.

5) Quatrain. — The underlined section is a four-line stanza (a quatrain).