AnswersMO-English Language Arts 10 B-CRUnit Test

Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

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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,’” 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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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 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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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 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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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 phrases from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove appeal to the sense of sight? Select two options.

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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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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A
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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