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1. Choose the word that best defines the italicized word.
The rescue workers discovered the dog (cowering) in the closet.
A - barking
B - cringing (my answer)
C - dying
D - sleeping
2. Read these lines from Robert Burn’s “To a Mouse.”
“An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,/O foggage green!/An’ bleak December winds ensuin’. . .”
Which of these is the NEAREST in meaning to the word (ensuin’), as it is used in the lines above?
A - arising (my answer)
B - ebbing
C - heating
D - unfeeling
3. Choose the word that best defines the italicized word.
The full impact of her (rash) decision had yet to be seen.
A - angry
B - hasty (my answer)
C - thoughtful
D - uninformed
4. Which except from Robert Burn’s “To a Mouse” BEST conveys understanding and forgiveness?
A - “...An’ weary winter comin’ fast,/An cozier here, beneath the blast..”
B - “Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!/ Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin’!”
C - “Still thou art blessed compared wi’ me/ The present only touched thee...”
D - “I doubt na ... but thou may thieve/ What then? Poor beastie, thou maun live!” (my answer)
5. To whom or what does William Blank’s “The Lamb” direct its praise?
A - animals
B - the gentleness of nature (my answer)
C - Jesus
D - the “Little Lamb”
6. Which of these does William Blank’s “The World Is Too Much with Us”?
A - paganism
B - modern life (my answer)
C - the death of reason
D - nature’s destructive powers
7. Which excerpt from Sammuel Taylor Coleride’s “Kubla Khan” MOST CLEARLY indicates that he has forgotten much of the dream he relates?
A - “Could I revive within me/Her symphony and song
B - “... For he on honeydew hath fed,/And drunk the milk Paradise.”
C - “Weave a circle round him thrice,/ And close your eyes with holy dread...” (my answer)
D - “...And all should cry, Beware! Beware!/His flashing eyes, his floating hair!”
8. Which excrept from Lord Byron’s “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” MOST CLEARLY describes a state of independence?
A - “But in Man’s dwellings he became a thing/Restless and worn...”
B - “...which could find/a life within itself, to breathe without Mankind.” (my answer)
C - “...who can behold/The smoothness and the sheen of beauty’s cheek...”
D - He has passion and the power to roam;/The desert, forest, cavern...”
9. With which of these excerpts from Percy Shelley’s “To a Skylark” does the speaker MOST DIRECTLY express envy for the subject of the work?
A - “Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!/Bird thy never wert...”
B - “...Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.”
C - “...And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.”
D - “Teach me half the gladness/That thy brain must know...” (my answer)
10. In his “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats attempts to understand and describe
A - the origin of life. (my answer)
B - the nature of beauty.
C - the purpose of death.
D - the meaning of passion.
11. Which of these is LESS TYPICAL of odes than of other types of poetry?
A - heavy reliance on rhyvthmband word sounds
B - language that creates a dignified tone or style (my answer)
C - thoughtful reflection upon a person or an object
D - language directly addressing the subject of the work
12. “Bird, thou never wert...”
Which of these is exemplified by this line from Percy Shelley’s “To a Skylark”?
A - archaic language (my answer)
B - onomatopoeia
C - simile
D - terza rima
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English 12 B Unit 1 Lesson 10
1. The rescue workers discovered the dog COWERING in the closet.
Answer - cringing
2. … In which the heavy and the weary weight/Of all this unintelligible world/Is lightened…”
Which of these is NEAREST in meaning to the word unintelligible as it is used in the lines above?
Answer - confused
3. His SPORTIVE personality delighted some and annoyed others.
Answer - playful
4. Which excerpt from Robert Burns’s “To a Mouse” BEST conveys compassion?
Answer - “Thy wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!/Its silly wa’s the win’s are strewin’!”
5. For which of these is the title character a symbol in William Blake’s “The Lamb”?
Answer - Jesus
6. Which of these does William Wordsworth criticize in “The World Is Too Much with Us”?
Answer - modern life
7. Which line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” marks the point at which the dream it describes becomes nightmarish?
Answer - “A savage place! as holy and enchanted…”
8. Which excerpt from Lord Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage MOST CLEARLY describes a state of alienation?
Answer - “But soon he knew himself the most unfit/Of men to herd with Man…”
9. Which excerpt from Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” refers directly to the title character?
Answer - “…Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert…”
10. In his “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats attempts to understand and describe
Answer - the nature of beauty
11. Which of these is LESS TYPICAL of odes than of other types of poetry?
Answer - heavy reliance on rhythm and word sounds
12. “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion…”
Which of these is exemplified by this line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”?
Answer - alliteration
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