Argument in George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

Question 1

Which line is written in iambic tetrameter?

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C: I try to fall asleep by ten.

Question 2

The boys are up the woods with day

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A: a

Question 3

Which statement best describes the effect of meter in the first line of the poem?

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C: The stress on know and fate emphasizes the speaker's certainty that he will die in combat.

Question 4

Which lines in this section of the poem are refrains? Check all that apply.

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A: "Do not go gentle into that good night"; C: "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"

Question 5

Which statement best describes the effect of parallelism in these lines?

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A: The use of parallelism emphasizes the speaker's Irish identity.

Question 6

To fetch the daffodils away,

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A: a

Question 7

And home at noonday from the hills

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B: b

Question 8

They bring no dearth of daffodils

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B: b

Argument in George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” Answers