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Quiz 5
Keats, Shelley &
Tennyson
1. “Bright Star”
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art—
Not …
No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—or else swoon to death.
(Choose the wrong one)
1.The alliteration of “s” sound suggests the softness
of the lover;
2.The use of rhymes suggests regularity of life.
3.The repetition of “still” and “for ever” suggests the
speaker’s steadfast love
4.It is paradoxically juxtaposed with images of short
and transient motions and death.
2. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy
X
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci
(Choose the wrong one)
Hath thee in thrall!”
1. The knight’s repetition in section XII of
XI.
the speaker’s words in section I
I saw their starved lips in the gloam, suggests the former’s lack of sincerity.
2. The nightmare vision makes the
With horrid warning gaped wide,
knight’s pursuit symbolic.
And I awoke and found me here,
3. The poem’s ballad form—with its
On the cold hill’s side.
rhymes and alliteration--suggests the
XII.
repetitiveness of the experience
And this is why I sojourn here,
described.
Alone and palely loitering,
4. The poem has a frame in the
Though the sedge is wither’d from thepresent tense to suggest the knight’s
lake,
wandering in a permanent present.
And no birds sing.
3. Ozymandias
Which of the following does not
suggest ironic meanings?
1. On the stone is written: “King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
2. The sculpture now has only two legs of
stone and a shattered visage
3. The poem is told by a traveler to a narrator.
4. Besides the sculpture there is boundless sand.
4. Which of the following is NOT
true of Dramatic Monologue
1.
2.
3.
4.
It is a poem which involves a speaker
speaking alone to an implied auditor.
The audience sometimes responds, and
sometimes doesn’t.
The speaker is frequently argumentative,
though s/he may not be aware of the
irony involved.
It dramatic scene is for the reader to
flesh out.
5. Matching “Ulysses” -- Choose the
wrong match
1. "He works his work, I mine."
2. , I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race
3. One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but
strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to
yield.
1. He is Telemachus
2. Suggests
boredom
3. Suggests strong
determination and
energies
4. The lights begin to twinkle from the 4.The twilight
rocks;
suggests old age
The long day wanes; the slow moon
climbs