Dover Beach AP Lang

The primary rhetorical function of lines 33-34,"Hath... for pain" is to...

• Set a grim and gloomy mood for the audience

• Use asyndeton to create a more rapid prose

• Emphasize the word nor through repetition

• Use polysyndeton to describe the gloominess within the poem

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

The author's allusion to Sophocles in line 15 serves primarily to...

• Reference a sea-faring experience

• Demonstrate the tragedy that life brings

• Show the strife that the sea presents

• Exhibit the competition that life and the sea present

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

The antecedent for "it" in line 25 is...

• The Sea of Faith

• Dover Beach

• The Earth

• The Northern Sea

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

The author's primary purpose is to...

• Inspire the reader to travel on water

• Describe the hardships and suffring of human life

• Illustrate the Dover Beach

• Describe the turmoil of the bay

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

The reason for the shift of tone in paragraph 1 is...

• To show the sadness that the author feels for the bay

• To demonstrate the difference between two seas

• To contrast the calmness of the bay to the turmoil of the bay

• To juxtapose the english side and the french side of the bay

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

The primary audience of the piece could be described as...

• Olympic swimmers

• A sorrowful retiree

• A marine biologist professer at Yale

• A person who's familiar with the english coastline

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The speaker's attitude throughout the text is best described as...

• Greiving

• Loving

• Hopeful

• Somber

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

In the piece, the author makes all the following assumptions about his/her readers EXCEPT...

• The reader know the cliffs were not always as turmoiled as they were

• The reader knows the location of the Cliffs of Dover

• The reader knows who Sophocles is

• The reader has experienced love

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.6

CCSS.RI.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

The tone of the first 5 lines can be best described as...

• Depressing

• Comforting

• Happy

• Arousing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Which of the following best describes the function of the fourth paragraph in relation to the paragraphs that precede it?

• The 3rd paragraph explains the darkness that is feared in paragraph four

• The 2nd paragraph describes the misery that humans struggle from in paragraph 4

• The 1st paragraph relates the hopefulness that the fourth paragraph leads off with

• The 1st paragraph relates the eternal sadness to the absence of joy, love, light, certitude, pease, and pain in paragraph four.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2