Quiz 5 Keats Shelley Tennyson 1 Bright Star

Quiz 5 Keats, Shelley & Tennyson

1. “Bright Star” Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not … No—yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death. (Choose the wrong one) 1. The alliteration of “s” sound suggests the softness of the lover; 2. The use of rhymes suggests regularity of life. 3. The repetition of “still” and “for ever” suggests the speaker’s steadfast love 4. It is paradoxically juxtaposed with images of short and transient motions and death.

2. La Belle Dame Sans Mercy X I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci (Choose the wrong one) 1. The knight’s repetition in section XII of Hath thee in thrall!” the speaker’s words in section I XI. suggests the former’s lack of sincerity. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, 2. The nightmare vision makes the With horrid warning gaped wide, knight’s pursuit symbolic. And I awoke and found me here, 3. The poem’s ballad form—with its rhymes and alliteration--suggests the On the cold hill’s side. repetitiveness of the experience XII. described. And this is why I sojourn here, 4. The poem has a frame in the present Alone and palely loitering, tense to suggest the knight’s wandering Though the sedge is wither’d from the in a permanent present. lake,

3. Ozymandias Which of the following does not suggest ironic meanings? 1. On the stone is written: “King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” 2. The sculpture now has only two legs of stone and a shattered visage 3. The poem is told by a traveler to a narrator. 4. Besides the sculpture there is boundless sand.

4. Which of the following is NOT true of Dramatic Monologue It is a poem which involves a speaker speaking alone to an implied auditor. 2. The audience sometimes responds, and sometimes doesn’t. 3. The speaker is frequently argumentative, though s/he may not be aware of the irony involved. 4. It dramatic scene is for the reader to flesh out. 1.

5. Matching “Ulysses” -- Choose the wrong match 1. "He works his work, I mine. " 2. , I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race 1. He is Telemachus 2. Suggests boredom 3. One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. 4. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs 3. Suggests strong determination and energies 4. The twilight suggests old age