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In "The Author to Her Book", the main reason Bradstreet uses inversion is to

Which statement best describes the thematic difference between "The Author to Her Book" and "A Hymn to the Evening"?

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?

Read the line from "Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church."I just wear my Wings –What does this line illustrate about the speaker’s view of spirituality?

Read Shakespeare's "Sonnet 130.”My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red, than her lips red:If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,But no such roses see I in her cheeks;And in some perfumes is there more delightThan in the breath that from my mistress reeks.I love to hear her speak, yet well I knowThat music hath a far more pleasing sound:I grant I never saw a goddess go,—My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare,As any she belied with false compare.

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

What is the couplet pattern in both “The Author to Her Book” and “A Hymn to the Evening”?

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?

Which statements describe iambic pentameter as it is used in Shakespearean sonnets? Select two options.Each line contains five metrical feet.A sonnet contains five rhyme schemes.There are five lines in every metrical foot.In two-word pairs, the second word is stressed.In a group of two syllables, the second is stressed.

What is the denotation of a word?

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?

What overall effect does Bradstreet achieve in "The Author to Her Book" through her use of hyperbole and metaphor?

What do Emily Dickinson's poetry typically include? Select 4 options.four-line stanzasthird-person narrationtraditional rhymememorable titlesfirst-person narrationfigurative language

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 "Mending Wall."Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonderIf I could put a notion in his head:“Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t itWhere there are cows? But here there are no cows.Before I built a wall I’d ask to knowWhat I was walling in or walling out,And to whom I was like to give offence.Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,That wants it down.” I could say “Elves” to him,But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d ratherHe said it for himself.What is the speaker’s mood in this excerpt?

Read this excerpt from a poem.He curls on the couchThe light is low.No voices beckon him awayDemands diminish.Contentment sidles up beside himAnd he exhales.Which line contains personification?

Read the third stanza of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess – in the Ring –We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –We passed the Setting Sun –Why does Dickinson most likely repeat the word “passed” three times in this stanza?

The speaker in "The Weary Blues" is most likely

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 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?