"A Validiction: Forbidding Mourning" /"Death, be not proud"

The use of conceits is especially characteristic of what kind of poetry?

• lyric

• Petrachan

• Elizabethian

• Metaphysical

• Shakespearean

According to "A Quick and Rough Explication" the speaker in this poem wants to tell Death that Death is

• more powerful than even he himself realizes

• a worthy adversary that humans will one day defeat

• someone who helps humans rather than hinders them

• a slave to no one, just like humans are slaves to no one

• none of the above

Replacing virtuous with which word would make the following sentence mean the opposite? She is very well-behaved and her family members describe her as virtuous.

• good

• brave

• clever

• immoral

• intelligent

Why does the speaker in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" forbid mourning?

• The speaker has the authority to issue orders like this one.

• Mourning would be false because the deceased was not loved

• Sadness in unwarranted because the love between the speaker and his wife has no end.

• The use of mourning is a play on words; the speaker is saying there should be no morning or future without him.

• He wants her to mourn so he thinks if he tells her not to do something, she will do it.

The speaker in Holy Sonnet 10 is addressing

• Fate

• God

• Death

• all people

• the reader

What does the line "Thy firmness makes my circle just" from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" mean?

• His wife is faithful but he is not

• He is ready to die because he has done everything

• The couple complements and completes one another

• His wife's fidelity is only fair, given her other behaviors

• His wife is stern, so he is allowed to be lenient and flexible

According to "Death, be not proud", Death dies when

• there are no more wars

• people live on in the afterlife

• people view it as sleep or rest

• the person who represents it dies

• fate decides no one else will die

What is the conceit in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

• saying the poem is a valediction

• saying that love makes one complete

• describing parts of the body as "care less"

• the lovers being compared to parts of a compass

• earthquakes being compared to celestial movements

Which of the following is a paradox?

• "And soonest our best men with thee do go"

• Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me"

• "And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well

• All of the above

• None of the above

Which half of Donne's dual character--Jack Donne, writer of ironic world verse, or Dr. Donne, writer of fervent religious poems--most likely wrote these two poems?

• Dr. Donne wrote them both

• Jack Donne wrote them both

• Half Jack Donne and half Dr. Donne wrote these poems

• Dr. Donne wrote "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Jack Donne wrote Holy Sonnet 10

• Jack Donne wrote "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Dr. Donne wrote Holy Sonnet 10