Fireside Poets Review

The speaker thinks it would be most fitting for Old Ironsides to

• sail

• sink

• be destroyed

• return to battle

• be hit by lightning

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Sensory details are

• the main characteristics of a person

• the main features that make something what it is

• ideas that express or appeal to our common sense

• expansion or elaboration on the main idea in a literary work

• words or phrases that appeal to one or more of our five senses

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What is the speaker referring to in Old Ironsides when he writes "the eagle of the sea"?

• any boat

• a seabird

• a huge wave

• Old Ironsides

• a winged monster

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At the beginning of "Old Ironsides," why does the poet write "Ay, tea her tattered ensign down!"?

• He wants the flag removed because it is not American

• He is stating what others want to do, which he opposes

• He wants the flag removed because it is old and tattered

• He realizes that it needs to be done, although it saddens him

• He wants the flag removed because it is a reminder of battle

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Which sense or senses, if any, are not appealed to in the poem "Old Ironsides"?

• taste only

• taste and smell

• taste, smell, and touch

• taste, smell, touch, and hearing

• the poem appeal to all five senses

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Which of the following lines from the poem "Old Ironsides" contains the strongest sensory detail?

• "That banner in the sky"

• "And there should be her grave"

• "Or know the conquered knee"

• "Oh, better that he shattered hulk"

• "Her deck, once red with heroes' blood"

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What is the most likely reason why some lines in the poem "Old Ironsides" vary in number of iambic feet?

• Some line require more words

• A regular meter would be boring

• The poet wants to stress some lines

• Any variation occurs only by chance

• The alternating meter mimics ocean waves

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Why are rhetorical questions not meant to be answered?

• Their answers depend on the reader

• They have no right or wrong answers

• Their answers are clear from the context

• They are too vague or abstract to answer

• They are age-old questions with no answers

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What is a couplet?

• a line with two feet

• a pair of rhyming lines

• the first two lines in a poem

• the last two lines in a poem

• a set of unstressed and stressed syllables

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In "Stanzas on Freedom", "roused blood" is compared to

• lava

• slavery

• blushing

• bravery

• freedom

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