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1. Read the following poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson and answer…
1. Read the following poem by Georgia Douglas Johnson and answer the question.
“Foredoom”
Her life was dwarfed, and wed to blight,
Her very days were shades of night,
Her every dream was born entombed,
Her soul, a bud,that never bloomed.
The tone of this poem can best be described as
defeated
ecstatic
joyful
prophetic
2. Read the following stanza from a poem by James Whitcomb Riley and answer the question that follows.
“The Days Gone By”
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The apples in the orchard, and the pathway through the rye;
The chirrup of the robin, and the whistle of the quail
As he piped across the meadows sweet as any nightingale;
When the bloom was on the clover, and the blue was in the sky,
And my happy heart brimmed over in the days gone by.
Which figurative language device is present in the bolded words?
Allusion
Idiom
Meiosis
Onomatopoeia
3.
Read the following stanzas from a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Then answer the question that follows.
Only reapers, reaping early
In among the bearded barley,
Hear a song that echoes cheerly
From the river winding clearly,
Down to towered Camelot:
And by the moon the reaper weary,
Piling sheaves in uplands airy,
Listening, whispers “‘Tis the fairy
Lady of Shalott.”
Part II
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
What is the best paraphrase of the bolded stanza?
Music follows the river through the fields of barley.
People are working in the fields and hear music that comes from a tower. They gossip about it while they gather barley.
There are murmurs in the fields about a woman they call “The Lady of Shalott.” It is rumored that she is a fairy. The tired reapers who are out in the fields early supposedly hear the fairy singing songs all the way from the river to the road to Camelot.
Workers are in a field gossiping about a woman who sings a lot.
4. Read the following poem by Carl Sandburg and answer the question that follows.
“The Mayor of Gary”
I ASKED the Mayor of Gary about the 12-hour day and the 7-day week.
And the Mayor of Gary answered more workmen steal time on the job in Gary than any other place in the United States.
“Go into the plants and you will see men sitting around doing nothingmachinery does everything,” said the Mayor of Gary when I asked him about the 12-hour day and the 7-day week.
And he wore cool cream pants, the Mayor of Gary, and white shoes, and a barber had fixed him up with a shampoo and a shave and he was easy and imperturbablethough the government weather bureau thermometer said 96 and children were soaking their heads at bubbling fountains on the street corners.
And I said good-by to the Mayor of Gary and I went out from the city hall and turned the corner into Broadway.
And I saw workmen wearing leather shoes scruffed with fire and cinders, and pitted with little holes from running molten steel,
And some had bunches of specialized muscles around their shoulder blades hard as pig iron, muscles of their fore-arms were sheet steel and they looked to me like men who had been somewhere.
How does the use of figurative language to describe the mayor and the workmen reveal Sandburg’s attitude toward these characters?
Sandburg feels that the city of Gary is leaps and bounds above all other cities in the United States.
Sandburg feels that the mayor is not equipped to make decisions about labor, because he does not know the value of hard work.
Sandburg thinks the mayor has some interesting ideas about the workweek.
Sandburg thinks the men of Gary should work harder so they can afford new shoes.
5.Read the following poem by William Wadsworth Longfellow and answer the question that follows.
“The Rainy Day”
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.
Using context clues, determine the meaning of the bolded word from the poem.
beautifully ornate
slowly decaying
promising
thriving
6.Read the following stanzas from a Robert Southey poem and answer the question that follows.
“My Days among the Dead are Past”
My days among the Dead are past;
Around me I behold,
Where’er these casual eyes are cast,
The mighty minds of old;
My never-failing friends are they,
With whom I converse day by day.
With them I take delight in weal,
And seek relief in woe;
And while I understand and feel
How much to them I owe,
My cheeks have often been bedew’d
With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Using context clues, determine the meaning of the bolded word.
dampened
decorated
garnished
scorched
7.
Read the following stanza from a poem by James Whitcomb Riley and answer the question that follows.
“The Days Gone By”
O the days gone by! O the days gone by!
The music of the laughing lip, the luster of the eye;
The childish faith in fairies, and Aladdin’s magic ring
The simple, soul-reposing, glad belief in everything,
When life was like a story, holding neither sob nor sigh,
In the golden olden glory of the days gone by.
Which figurative language device is present in the bolded text?
Allusion
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Simile
8.
Read the following poem by Clarissa Scott Delany and answer the question.
“Joy”
Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail,
Like the roistering wind
That laughs through stalwart pines.
It floods me like the sun
On rain-drenched trees
That flash with silver and green.
I abandon myself to joy
I laughI sing.
Too long have I walked a desolate way,
Too long stumbled down a maze
Bewildered.
What does the use of a figurative language device in the bolded lines add to the poem’s meaning?
The use of an allusion supplies context for the reader.
The use of metaphors allows the reader to see how the speaker feels about nature.
The use of onomatopoeias provides auditory imagery for the reader.
The use of similes paints vivid comparisons of how “joy” makes the speaker feel.
9
Read the following stanza from an Elizabeth Barrett Browning poem and answer the question that follows.
“A Musical Instrument”
High on the shore sate the great god Pan,
While turbidly flowed the river;
And hacked and hewed as a great god can,
With his hard bleak steel at the patient reed,
Till there was not a sign of a leaf indeed
To prove it fresh from the river.
Which figurative language device is present in the bolded text?
Alliteration
Idiom
Meiosis
Onomatopoeia
10.
Read the following poem by James Whitcomb Riley and answer the question.
“Granny”
Granny’s come to our house,
And ho! my lawzy-daisy!
All the childern round the place
Is ist a-runnin’ crazy!
Fetched a cake fer little Jake,
And fetched a pie fer Nanny,
And fetched a pear fer all the pack
That runs to kiss their Granny!
Lucy Ellen’s in her lap,
And Wade and Silas Walker
Both’s a-ridin’ on her foot,
And ‘Pollos on the rocker;
And Marthy’s twins, from Aunt Marinn’s,
And little Orphant Annie,
All’s a-eatin’ gingerbread
And giggle-un at Granny!
Tells us all the fairy tales
Ever thought er wundered
And ‘bundance o’ other stories
Bet she knows a hunderd!
Bob’s the one fer “Whittington,”
And “Golden Locks” fer Fanny!
Hear ’em laugh and clap their hands,
Listenin’ at Granny!
“Jack the Giant-Killer” ‘s good;
And “Bean-Stalk” ‘s another!
So’s the one of “Cinderell'”
And her old godmother;
That-un’s best of all the rest
Bestest one of any,
Where the mices scampers home
Like we runs to Granny!
Granny’s come to our house,
Ho! my lawzy-daisy!
All the childern round the place
Is ist a-runnin’ crazy!
Fetched a cake fer little Jake,
And fetched a pie fer Nanny,
And fetched a pear fer all the pack
That runs to kiss their Granny!
The mood of this poem could best be described as
distressed
lighthearted
nostalgic
serious
11.
Read the following poem by Amy Lowell and answer the question that follows.
“Prime”
Your voice is like bells over roofs at dawn
When a bird flies
And the sky changes to a fresher color.
Speak, speak, Beloved.
Say little things
For my ears to catch
And run with them to my heart.
What does the use of a figurative language device in the bolded lines add to the poem’s meaning?
The oxymoron of how bells fly over the roofs at dawn illustrates how sound and birds fly.
The paradox used here illustrates the vast difference between the church bells and the voice of their loved one.
The simile comparing the church bells to their love’s voice illustrates how welcome that sound is.
The use of meiosis shows how the author’s love is as insignificant as bells, a bird, or the sky.
12.
Read the following poem by Robert Frost and answer the question.
“Evening in Sugar Orchard”
From where I lingered in a lull in March
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
‘O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.’
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.
What does the use of a figurative language device in the bolded lines add to the poem’s meaning?
The alliteration adds a rhythmic and pleasing sound that mimics sounds in nature.
The allusion to constellations add imagery to show the reader how the sparks are scattered in the sky.
The hyperbole shows the reader that the sparks were too large to contain.
The meiosis shows the reader how minimal the sparks in the sky were.
13.
Read the following poem by William Wordsworth and answer the question that follows.
“Perfect Woman”
She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleam’d upon my sight;
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment’s ornament;
Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;
Like twilight’s, too, her dusky hair;
But all things else about her drawn
From May-time and the cheerful dawn;
A dancing shape, an image gay,
To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Which figurative language device is present in the bolded text?
Alliteration
Allusion
Hyperbole
Metaphor
