2.18 Unit 2 Study Guide

Read the line from "The New Colossus."

Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free

What does the word yearning mean?

• longing

• despising

• rising

• despairing

Read these lines from "The New Colossus."

Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,

I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

How does the poet's word choice affect the tone of the poem?

• It creates a welcoming tone

• It creates a cautionary tone.

• It creates a grim tone.

• It creates a thoughtful tone.

What characteristics of "Sonnet XII" shows that the poem is a sonnet? Select all the correct characteristics.

• The poem has fourteen lines

• It is written in iambic pentameter

• It has three quatrains and one rhyming couplet

• Most words have two syllables

• It is written in Medieval English

What can be inferred (guessed) from the sonnet? Select all the correct answers.

• Everything that lives ages

• It is autumn

• The narrator believes that no one can avoid death

• Dying young is a waste of life

• The narrator is old and thinks he will die soon

Which line from the sonnet best supports that it is autumn in the poem?

• "When loft trees I see barren of leaves"

• "When I do count the clock that tells the time"

• "That thou among the wastes of time must go"

• "And die as fast as they see others grow"

How does the change from the rhyming pattern in the quatrains to the rhyming couplet in the sonnet affect the poem?

• It makes readers focus on the conclusion and the author's message

• It causes the reader to change their speaking tone when reading aloud

• It informs readers that the last two rhyming words are the most important

• It makes readers want to see if any other lines rhyme with the couplet

How does the rhyming of time with prime affect the poem in the first quatrain (first four lines)?

• It emphasizes the quatrain's theme of the passage of time

• It makes the language easier to understand

• It shows how the words share the same meaning

• It encourages the reader to read the poem out loud

Which sentence using the word deferred correctly?

• She asked for her entry into the contest to be deferred until she had the money.

• We deferred the chance to see the concert early because we did not want to wait for seats.

• CJ deferred the bulk of the work in his group project because he had the most experience in gardening.

• The employees were deferred that they were given two extra free days.

Which word means "not able to be understood"?

• recede

• subsist

• unfathomable

• impede

The root of the word ambidextrous is ambi, or "both."

Based on this clue, what is the best meaning of the word ambidextrous?

• using both the left and right hands easily

• growing at faster rates than others

• joining in a group of two or more people

• talking with several people at once