“With the other masquerades/That time resumes,/One thinks of all the hands/That are raising dingy shades/In a thousand furnished rooms.” Which of these best describes this excerpt from T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes”?

Question

A. It is an example of sprung rhythm.
B. It is an example of iambic pentameter.
C. It is an example of dialect poetry.
D. It is an example of free verse.

Answer 1

D. It is an example of free verse.

Answer 2

“With the other masquerades/That time resumes,/One thinks of all the hands/That are raising dingy shades/In a thousand furnished rooms.” Which of these best describes this excerpt from T.S. Eliot’s “Preludes”?
A. It is an example of sprung rhythm.
B. It is an example of iambic pentameter.
D. It is an example of free verse.

Answer 3

D. It is an example of free verse.

Answer 4

“A shocking accident,” she would begin, and the stranger would compose his or her features into the correct shape for interest and commiseration. Both reactions, of course, were false, but it was terrible for Jerome to see how suddenly, midway in her rambling discourse, the interest would become genuine.” This excerpt from Graham Greene’s “A Shocking Accident” is an example of which of the following?
A. pathos
B. humor of situation
C. humor of character
D. slapstick

Answer 5

B. humor of situation