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Lesson Two: Comparing Poetry and Art Answers

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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
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to escape unpleasant news
C
to be exposed to stark reality
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to escape poisonous air
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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.

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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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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.
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There is a pattern of stressed syllables.
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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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