Which quotation from a Shakespearean sonnet is a couplet?
What do Emily Dickinson's poetry typically include? Select 4 options.four-line stanzasthird-person narrationtraditional rhymememorable titlesfirst-person narrationfigurative language
Read the excerpt from "Madam and the Rent Man" by Langston Hughes.I said, Naturally, You pass the buck. If it's money you wantYou're out of luck.He said, Madam, I ain't pleased! I said, Neither am I. So we agrees!
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."We keep the wall between us as we go.To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of out-door game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.What feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?
Read the passage, and then answer the question.It had been another long day at school.I sighed as I started my homework,Realizing It would take forever to finish.
Why do writers use figurative language? Select 4 options.to convey abstract ideas, such as love or lonelinessto retell historical events in a factual mannerto describe a scientific finding accuratelyto connect unfamiliar concepts with the familiarto express a lot of information in just a few wordsto engage readers’ imaginations with writing
How are the main concepts of "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church" and "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" treated in both poems?
Read the passage, and then answer the question.Alice got an A on her essayAnd, I don't understand why. She doesn't work as hard Or write as well as I do.
Read "We outgrow love like other things" by Emily Dickinson.We outgrow love like other thingsAnd put it in the drawer,Till it an antique fashion showsLike costumes grandsires wore.
Read the excerpt from "Madam and the Rent Man" by Langston Hughes.The rent man knocked. He said, Howdy-do? I said, WhatCan I do for you? He said, You knowYour rent is due.
Read the lines from "The Weary Blues."Thump, thump, thump, went his foot on the floor.He played a few chords then he sang some more.The repetition of the word "thump" is an example of what literary device?
Read the lines from "Harlem."Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Read the lines from "The Weary Blues."He did a lazy sway . . .He did a lazy sway.Which best describes the relationship between these lines?
Read these stanzas from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poems."The Seedling""The Old Apple Tree" Little folks, be like the seedling,Always do the best you can;Every child must share life's laborJust as well as every man.And the sun and showers will help youThrough the lonesome, struggling hours,Till you raise to light and beautyVirtue's fair, unfading flowers Life for us ain't all been summer,But I guess we've had our shareOf its flittin' joys an' pleasures,An' a sprinklin' of its care.Oft the skies have smiled upon us;Then again we've seen 'em frown,Though our load was ne'er so heavyThat we longed to lay it down.But when death does come a-callin',This my last request shall be,—That they'll bury me an' Hallie'Neath the old apple-tree.How are the messages of these two poems similar?
Read these stanzas from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s poems."Ebb""Song of a Second April" I know what my heart is likeSince your love died:It is like a hollow ledgeHolding a little poolLeft there by the tide,A little tepid pool,Drying inward from the edgeThe larger streams run still and deep,Noisy and swift the small brooks runAmong the mullein stalks the sheepGo up the hillside in the sun,Pensively,—only you are gone,You that alone I cared to keep. How are the messages of these two poems similar?
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