A Late Walk

1          When I go up through the mowing field,
2          The headless aftermath,
3          Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
4          Half closes the garden path.

5          And when I come to the garden ground,
6          The whir of sober birds
7          Up from the tangle of withered weeds
8          Is sadder than any words

9          A tree beside the wall stands bare,
10        But a leaf that lingered brown,
11        Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
12        Comes softly rattling down.

13        I end not far from my going forth
14        By picking the faded blue
15        Of the last remaining aster flower
16        To carry again to you.

The following is an example of alliteration:

1   Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense

2   Weigh thy Opinion against Providence;

3   Call Imperfection what thou fancy'st such,

4   Say, here he gives too little, there too much;

5   Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust,

6   Yet cry, If Man's unhappy, God's unjust;

7   If Man alone engross not Heav'n's high care,

8   Alone made perfect here, immortal there:

9   Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod,

10 Re-judge his justice, be the GOD of GOD!

11 In Pride, in reasoning Pride, our error lies;

12 All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.

13 Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,

14 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.

15 Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,

16 Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel;

17  And who but wishes to invert the laws

18 Of ORDER, sins against th' Eternal Cause.

                                                       (1734)

Which of the following is an example of a slant rhyme (also called "half rhyme")? 

1   O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

2   The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,

3   The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

4   While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

5   But O heart! heart! heart!

6   O the bleeding drops of red,

7   Where on the deck my Captain lies,

8   Fallen cold and dead. 

                                              (1865)

In which line is the speaker using foreshadowing?

1   O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,

2   The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,

3   The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

4   While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;

5   But O heart! heart! heart!

6   O the bleeding drops of red,

7   Where on the deck my Captain lies,

8   Fallen cold and dead. 

                                              (1865)

What literary technique is used in the first line of the poem?

Adapted from "The Author to Her Book" by Anne Bradstreet (1678)

The literary technique that Bradstreet uses in addressing her book directly as her "offspring" is __________.

“Gear and tackle and trim” (line 6) is an example of a(n) __________, while " "counter, original, spare, strange" (line 7) is an example of a(n) __________. 

Which of the following literary techniques is used most frequently in this poem? 

1   Stella, whence doth this new assault arise,

2   A conquer’d, yielden, ransack’d heart to win?

3   Whereto long since through my long batter’d eyes,

4  Whole armies of thy beauties entered in.

5   And there long since, Love thy lieutenant lies,

6   My forces raz’d, thy banners rais’d within:

7  Of conquest, do not these effects suffice,

8   But wilt now war upon thine own begin?

9   With so sweet voice, and by sweet Nature so

10 In sweetest strength, so sweetly skill’d withal,

11 In all sweet stratagems sweet Art can show,

12 That not my soul, which at thy foot did fall

13 Long since, forc’d by thy beams, but stone nor tree

14 By Sense’s privilege, can ‘scape from thee.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

1   Stella, whence doth this new assault arise,

2   A conquer’d, yielden, ransack’d heart to win?

3   Whereto long since through my long batter’d eyes,

4  Whole armies of thy beauties entered in.

5   And there long since, Love thy lieutenant lies,

6   My forces raz’d, thy banners rais’d within:

7  Of conquest, do not these effects suffice,

8   But wilt now war upon thine own begin?

9   With so sweet voice, and by sweet Nature so

10 In sweetest strength, so sweetly skill’d withal,

11 In all sweet stratagems sweet Art can show,

12 That not my soul, which at thy foot did fall

13 Long since, forc’d by thy beams, but stone nor tree

14 By Sense’s privilege, can ‘scape from thee.

"Conquer’d, yielden, ransack’d" (line 2) and "my forces raz’d, thy banners rais’d within" (line 6) are examples of __________. 

Passage adapted from "To Some Ladies" (1817) by John Keats

What though while the wonders of nature exploring,
  I cannot your light, mazy footsteps attend;
Nor listen to accents, that almost adoring,
  Bless Cynthia's face, the enthusiast's friend:

(5) Yet over the steep, whence the mountain stream rushes,
  With you, kindest friends, in idea I rove;
Mark the clear tumbling crystal, its passionate gushes,
  Its spray that the wild flower kindly bedews.

Why linger you so, the wild labyrinth strolling?
 (10) Why breathless, unable your bliss to declare?
Ah! you list to the nightingale's tender condoling,
  Responsive to sylphs, in the moon beamy air.

'Tis morn, and the flowers with dew are yet drooping,
  I see you are treading the verge of the sea:
(15) And now! ah, I see it—you just now are stooping
  To pick up the keep-sake intended for me.

If a cherub, on pinions of silver descending,
  Had brought me a gem from the fret-work of heaven;
And smiles, with his star-cheering voice sweetly blending,
  (20) The blessings of Tighe had melodiously given;

It had not created a warmer emotion
  Than the present, fair nymphs, I was blest with from you,
Than the shell, from the bright golden sands of the ocean
  Which the emerald waves at your feet gladly threw.

(25) For, indeed, 'tis a sweet and peculiar pleasure,
  (And blissful is he who such happiness finds,)
To possess but a span of the hour of leisure,
  In elegant, pure, and aerial minds.

Which of the following from the poem is an example of anthropomorphism?