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1 Break me no bread however white it be;

2 It cannot fill the emptiness I know;

3 No wine can cool this desert thirst in me

4 Though it had lain a thousand years in snow;

5 No swooning lotus flower’s languid juice

6 Drips anodyne unto my restlessness,

7 And impotent to win me to a truce

8 Is every artifice of loveliness.

What is the term used to describe the way lines 3, 5, and 7 end?

(a)  

1 Break me no bread however white it be;

2 It cannot fill the emptiness I know;

3 No wine can cool this desert thirst in me

4 Though it had lain a thousand years in snow;

5 No swooning lotus flower’s languid juice

6 Drips anodyne unto my restlessness,

7 And impotent to win me to a truce

8 Is every artifice of loveliness.

What is a stanza with this many lines called?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.7.4

1 Break me no bread however white it be;

2 It cannot fill the emptiness I know;

3 No wine can cool this desert thirst in me

4 Though it had lain a thousand years in snow;

5 No swooning lotus flower’s languid juice

6 Drips anodyne unto my restlessness,

7 And impotent to win me to a truce

8 Is every artifice of loveliness.

What is the rhyme scheme of these 8 lines?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.7.4

9 Inevitable is the way I go,

10 False-faced amid a pageant permeate

11 With bliss, yet visioning a higher wave

12 Than this weak ripple washing to and fro;

13 The fool still keeps his dreams inviolate

14 Till their virginity espouse the grave.

A stanza with this many lines is called a

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

9 Inevitable is the way I go,

10 False-faced amid a pageant permeate

11 With bliss, yet visioning a higher wave

12 Than this weak ripple washing to and fro;

13 The fool still keeps his dreams inviolate

14 Till their virginity espouse the grave.

Which sound device dominates line 10?

(a)  

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

9 Inevitable is the way I go,

10 False-faced amid a pageant permeate

11 With bliss, yet visioning a higher wave

12 Than this weak ripple washing to and fro;

13 The fool still keeps his dreams inviolate

14 Till their virginity espouse the grave.

Besides alliteration, what other sound device is prevalent in line 10?

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

When put together as one poem, these 14 lines of iambic pentameter are called a

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;” (Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar)

Ears in this line is an example of

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

"Dame Poverty gave me my name,  

   And Pain godfathered me."

from "Saturday's Child"

Treating Pain and Poverty thus is known as

(a)  

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CCSS.L.6.5A

For I was born on Saturday—

   “Bad time for planting a seed,”

Was all my father had to say,

   And, “One mouth more to feed.”

 

Death cut the strings that gave me life,

   And handed me to Sorrow,  

The only kind of middle wife

   My folks could beg or borrow.

from "Saturday's Child" by Countee Cullen

Death cutting the string and "Saturday's Child" are examples of

(a)  

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4