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Read the stanza from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden.O light beheld as through refracting tears.Here is the aura of that worldeach of us has lost.Here is the shadow of its joy.

A
It illustrates tears as being soothing.
B
It illustrates a sense of misfortune.
C
It illustrates faith in humankind.
D
It illustrates the beauty of nature.
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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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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.

Question illustration
A
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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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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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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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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Read the lines from Robert Hayden’s poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” and then look at the painting Water Lilies by Claude Monet.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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A
a sense of peace or comfort
B
an allusion to conflict
C
a chaotic viewpoint
D
a sense of movement or fluidity
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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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Read the poem "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.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.

A
repeating lines
B
rhyme scheme
C
regular meter
D
stanzas
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Which line from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden includes an allusion?

A
“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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