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What is the effect of the author’s use of apostrophe in the poem "85"?

A
It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author.
B
It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.
C
It causes the readers to imagine a future event.
D
It engages readers by addressing them directly.
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A metaphor makes a comparison

A
that is between two unlike things.
B
that is between two similar things.
C
that uses the word like.
D
that uses the word as.
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What do you call language that appeals to the senses and creates an impression?

A
metaphor
B
personification
C
imagery
D
apostrophe
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Read the line from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.In the joy of your heart may you feel the living joy that sang one spring morning, sending its glad voice across an hundred years.

A
The personification shows how happiness is quick to fade.
B
The metaphor illustrates what it was like to live in the past.
C
The personification suggests that past happiness can last a long time.
D
The metaphor illustrates how one can be truly happy only in spring.
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Read the lines from "The Gardner" by Rabindranath Tagore.With a glance of your eyes you could plunder all the wealth of songs struck from poets’ harps, fair woman! But for their praises you have no ear, therefore I come to praise you You could humble at your feet the proudest heads in the world.

A
gain insight into the speaker’s feelings for the woman.
B
imagine exactly what the harps would sound like.
C
think that the woman has very poor hearing.
D
visualize what the “proudest heads in the world” look like.
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Read the lines from "The Gardner" by Rabindranath Tagore.Have you not finished your work yet, bride? Listen, the guest has come. Have you not lit the lamp in the cowshed? Have you not got ready the offering basket for the evening service?

A
visualize the setting of the wedding.
B
reflect on what the bride is going through.
C
think that the author already knows the answers.
D
wonder what the guest must be thinking.
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Which line most directly states the speaker’s feelings in "Song VII" by Rabindranath Tagore?

A
“She has no pride of dress and decoration.”
B
“their jingling would drown thy whispers.”
C
“My poet’s vanity dies in shame before thy sight.”
D
“like a flute of reed for thee to fill with music.”
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Read the line from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.Over the green and yellow rice-fields sweep the shadows of the autumn clouds followed by the swift-chasing sun.

A
The reader feels how hot the sun was that day.
B
The reader can imagine what the night looks like.
C
The reader feels like he or she is flying through the field.
D
The reader can visualize the fields and the sky.
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Speech directed toward someone who is absent or toward a thing that is personified is called

a
apostrophe.
p
personification.
i
imagery.
m
metaphor.
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Read the lines from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.The bees forget to sip their honey; drunken with light they foolishly hover and hum. . . .Laughter floats in the air like foam on the flood.

A
visualize the color of the honeycombs.
B
imagine the sounds of the bees and laughter.
C
visualize the people who are laughing.
D
imagine what the river looks like when it floods.

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