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Unending Love is a poem that talks about the love that is Immortal.
What things do lovers have in common? Shy sweetness of meeting and distressful tears
The poem not only speaks about the love of one to someone but also about love that is Universal
What technique is used in the lines “..shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting?” Alliteration
What figure of speech is used in the lines “My spell-bound heart has made the necklace of songs?
Synecdoche
PSALM OF LIFE
What do these lines suggest “Be not like dumb, driven cattle; Be a hero in the strife”? We should overcome
our problems
Footprints refer to The inspiration one evokes in other people and The thins people remember about a
dead person.
The figure of speech used in this line “Dust thou art, to dust returnest” is Allusion
Which of the following is NOT true? What happens to the bod happens to the soul too.
What figure of speech is used in this line “life is but an empty dream.” Metaphor
Life is time-bound. This suggests that Life ends; death overcomes it.
ON GIVING
When does one truly give? When one gives a little of his possessions.
According to the poem, in what kind of giver is God reflected? Those who give and know not pain in giving
nor do they seek joy nor give with mindfulness of virtue.
According to the poem, when one is over-mindful of his debt means He doubts a giver’s generosity.
MY COUNTRY FOR MANDELA
For what charges Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment? Sabotage and treason
SONNET 18
The term lease in the line “And summer’s lease is all too short a date” means A period of time.
The message of the persona in the poem Her beauty lasts like the poem written for her.
The underlined phrase in the line “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines” is an example of
Metonymy
It is sad poem usually written to praise and express sorrow for am important person who is dead. Elegy
The person who said “loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty” Mother
Theresa
The title “Elegy for a Woman of No Importance” uses this figure of speech. Irony
These lines “When she died no face turned pale, no lips trembled, doors heard no retelling of her death,
mean that No one cares about the death of the woman.
The figure of speech in the line “The moon murmured sadly” is called Personification
The figure of speech used in the line “doors heard no retelling of her death” Personification
The figure of speech in this line “The scrap of news stumbled in the alleyways” is called Personification
ODE TO MY SOCKS
What is the moral of the ode? Beauty is twice beauty is when it is used for its purpose at the right time.
In the line “Like explorers in the jungle who hand over the very rare green deer to the spit and eat it with
remorse” spit means A sharp stick on which meat is roasted over an open fire.
Which of the following lines does NOT depict the color of the socks Two fish made of wool.
The line that does NOT depict the dilemma of the persona I stretched out my feet and pulled on the
magnificent socks.
The line that does NOT show intense appreciation the persona fell for the socks Which she knitted
herself with her sheepherder’s hands.