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| 1. | Consider the following poem: |
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| | | To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he’s a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
The age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry;
For having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry.
Robert Herrick, 1591-1674 |
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| | What is the theme of Herrick’s poem? |
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| | | a. | Marriage is most successful when a couple is young. |
| | | b. | Youth is best spent in ease; there is time enough in later years to accomplish our goals. |
| | | c. | We must take advantage of the opportunities afforded in our youth because youth is fleeting. |
| | | d. | Everything eventually dies, thus, nothing we do is truly important. |
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| 2. | “A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals” is an example of a: |
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| | | a. | symbol |
| | | b. | homonym |
| | | c. | paradox |
| | | d. | pun |
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| 3. | Choose the line that best concludes the following poem. Consider rhythm, rhyme, and meter. |
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| | | The little town and river grew as one
And played as children on the valley floor
In stormy weather if they scrapped for fun
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| | | a. | They always liked each other again soon as they did before |
| | | b. | This only made them like each other more |
| | | c. | It was because it often rained without measure |
| | | d. | They did so only when it would pour |
