CommonLit "Ode to a Grecian Urn"

Which statement identifies the central theme of the poem?

• Young love is the most powerful form of love.

• Life is about making sacrifices for the greater good.

• While life is fleeting, art has the ability to live on.

• The simple pleasures of life are the most important.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? / What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?” (Lines 9-10)

• “Who are these coming to the sacrifice? / To what green altar, O mysterious priest” (Lines 31-32)

• “Of marble men and maidens overwrought, / With forest branches and the trodden weed” (Lines 42-43)

• “When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe” (Lines 46-47)

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the meaning of “desolate” in line 40?

• depressing

• deserted

• destroyed

• undesirable

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which quote from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn?” (Line 37)

• “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought” (Line 44)

• “O Attic shape! Fair attitude!” (Line 41)

• “Of marble men and maidens overwrought” (Line 42)

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9