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Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

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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.

A
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 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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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.

Question illustration
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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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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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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What are the characteristics of fixed poetry? Select three options.

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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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 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 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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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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