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Longfellow Quiz
Question | Answer |
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In which of the following sentences is the word efface used correctly? | As community service, they had to efface the graffiti |
What is the effect of the rhyme scheme of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"? | It links the stanzas and mimics the tide |
The speaker in "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" says the __ will never return to the shore. | traveler |
What is the overall mood of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls"? | peaceful |
The speaker of "A Psalm of Life" is | a young man. |
In the third stanza of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" a call is made by a __. | curlew |
"Footprints on the sand of time" symbolize | a person's contribution to the world. |
Which of the following is an example of personification? | "Let the Past bury its dead!" |
Replacing sublime with which word would make the following sentence mean the opposite? In poetry, nature is often described in sublime terms. | commonplace |
What is personification? | describing an animal, idea, or force in nature as if it were human |
What is the overall mood of "A Psalm of Life"? | inspiring |
At the end of "A Psalm of Life," the speaker encourages readers to | work and achieve. |
The speaker of "A Psalm of Life" objects to the philosophy that | life merely leads to the grave. |
The poet in "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" describes the __ as having soft, white hands. | waves |
A writer creates a mood through all of the following except | rhyme scheme |
What dies "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,/Was not spoken of the soul," from A Psalm of Life," mean? | The souls doesn't lie. |
Which of the following lines from "A Psalm of Life" is a break from the meter of the poem, which creates emphasis? | "Life is real! Life is earnest!" |
In the first stanza of "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" a __ rushes toward town. | traveler |