AnswersCISD TX- Eng II B CR Nov 2026Character and Culture in Literature

Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

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Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion?

A
“Each night she lay down in pain and rose”
B
“And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
C
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”
D
“of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”
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What evidence supports the conclusion that the poem is written in free verse? Select two options.

A
There are three stanzas.
B
There is no rhyme scheme.
C
The lines are unequal in length.
D
There is a regular rhyme scheme.
E
There is a pattern of stressed syllables.
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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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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

A
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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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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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 lines from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of alliteration?

A
“among parrots, in the stern petticoats of the peasant, / who painted herself a present–”
B
“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset / her spine resides in, that flaming pillar–”
C
“Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead. / And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting”
D
“Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”
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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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What is a stanza?

A
a group of lines
B
a pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines
C
words that appeal to the senses
D
words with regular patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Which phrases from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove appeal to the sense of sight? Select two options.“her Beloved Dead”“This is for the woman”“erect / among parrots”“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset”“she lay down in pain”

A
“her Beloved Dead”
B
“This is for the woman”
C
“erect / among parrots”
D
“wildflowers entwining the plaster corset”
E
“she lay down in pain”

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