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Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

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Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the detail from Claude Monet’s painting Water Lilies.Today as the news from Selma and Saigonpoisons the air like fallout,I come again to seethe serene, great picture that I love.

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to view art purely for art’s sake
B
to escape unpleasant news
C
to be exposed to stark reality
D
to escape poisonous air
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Read the stanza from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove.This is for the woman with one black wingperched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erectamong parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,who painted herself a present—wildflowers entwining the plaster corsether spine resides in, that flaming pillar—this priestess in the romance of mirrors.

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to tell about the way that Frida’s hair moves
B
to indicate that Frida has a keen sense of sight
C
to describe a prominent feature of Frida’s face
D
to suggest that Frida has birdlike qualities
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Read the line from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.O light beheld as through refracting tears.

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It points out that the artwork addresses a sad topic.
B
It explains the importance of light to supporting life.
C
It compares the painting to an emotional experience.
D
It suggests that the scene was painted at night.
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The rhyme pattern that occurs at the ends of lines in poetry is called

A
a rhyme meter.
B
a rhyme rhythm.
C
a rhyme ending.
D
a rhyme scheme.
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Which phrase from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden is an example of a simile?

A
“the serene, great picture that I love”
B
“the eye like the eye of faith believes”
C
“illusive flesh of light”
D
“Here is the shadow of its joy”
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Which lines from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of a rhyme?

A
“This is for the woman with one black wing / perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect”
B
“her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— / this priestess in the romance of mirrors.”
C
“to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.”
D
“love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”
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Read Rita Dove’s poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors,” then study Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot.This is for the woman with one black wingperched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erectamong parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant,who painted herself a present—wildflowers entwining the plaster corsether spine resides in, that flaming pillar—this priestess in the romance of mirrors.Each night she lay down in pain and roseto the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved Dead,Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs pantinglike children along the graveled walks of the garden, Diego’slove a skull in the circular windowof the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.

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The painting pays attention to details of Kahlo’s physical appearance, while the poem does not.
B
The poem portrays the painter as serious, while the painting does not.
C
The poem reveals details that explain Kahlo’s facial expressions, while the painting does not.
D
The painting uses imagery that tells of Kahlo’s connection to nature, while the poem does not.
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Which words from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of sight?

A
“poisons the air”
B
“I come again to see”
C
“through refracting tears”
D
“the seen, the known”
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What are the characteristics of fixed poetry? Select three options.a regular rhyme schemelines of equal lengtha structure that follows emotionsa set number of linesirregular rhyme schemes

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a regular rhyme scheme
B
lines of equal length
C
a structure that follows emotions
D
a set number of lines
E
irregular rhyme schemes
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Which line from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden includes an allusion?

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“Today as the news from Selma and Saigon”
B
“O light beheld as through refracting tears.”
C
“Here space and time exist in light”
D
“Here is the aura of that world”

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