The Patriot

What style is the poem written in?

• Iambic Pentameter

• Dramatic monologue

• Blank verse

• None of the above

Who wrote the poem?

• Robert Browning

• Roald Dahl

• Shel Silverstein

• William Wordsworth

What is the literary device used in the phrase "The old walls rocked"?

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Hyperbole

• Personification

What do the lines "Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels--- But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, " And afterward, what else?" " represent?

• The crowd jumping to catch the sun

• The comparison between the crowd now and a year hence

• The eagerness of the crowd to do as the patriot asks

• The joy the crowd feels in conversing with the patriot

What is the theme of the poem?

• Fickleness of God

• Fickleness of public adulation

• Everything wrong with the world

• Discrimination

What is the meaning of palsied?

• Diseased/ Paralyzed people

• People at the windows set

• Happy people

• Fickle people

Why is the public congregating at Shambles' Gate?

• To watch the Patriot get rewarded for his year of hard work

• To watch the Patriot get hung for his year of misdeeds

• To watch the Gladiators fight

• To throw myrtle and roses in the Patriot's path

What is the irony in the sentence "For they fling, whoever has a mind, Stones at me for my year's misdeeds."?

• The sentence says, whoever has a mind is flinging stones, but it is such a mindless activity in reality.

• Because they are all going to get a taste of their own medicine in the following stanzas

• Because The crowd themselves are getting hurt in the process

• None of the above

The people will be paid for their deeds by whom?

• Children

• God

• The Patriot

• The crowd

What do roses signify in the poem?

• Celebration

• Marriage

• Beauty

• Blood