Evaluation Quiz on Interjections

“And there she lulled me asleep

And there I dream’d – ah! woe betide!

The latest dream I ever dream’d

On the cold hill’s side.”

-A. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (by John Keats)

1.1. What interjection is used?

• I dream’d

• Ah! Woe betide!

• She lulled me to sleep

• On the cold hill’s side.

“And there she lulled me asleep

And there I dream’d – ah! woe betide!

The latest dream I ever dream’d

On the cold hill’s side.”

-A. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (by John Keats)

1.2. The speakers expression emphasizes the medieval romantic setting of a cave, where a woman lulls a knight to sleep and he begins to dream. What does the line, Ah! Woe betide! suggest?

• Extreme Anger

• Extreme Happiness

• Extreme Irritation

• Extreme Suffering

    “Iago: Awake! What, ho, Brobantio! Thieves! Thieves! Thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!

- Othello by William Shakespeare

 

2.1 In these lines, lago tries to stir up trouble for Othello by awakening Brabantio with news of Desdemona and Othello's elopement. The emotion being expressed here is lago's_____.

• Encouragement

• Excitement

• Happiness

• Surprise

  "Oh, give me back my heavenly child, My love!” the rose in anguish cried; Alas! The sky triumphant smiled, And so the flower, heart-broken, died.

- Mother and Child (by Eugene Field)

 

3.1 In general, the poem expresses_ of a grieving mother.

• Confusion

• Happiness

• Optimism

• Sadness

  "Oh, give me back my heavenly child, My love!” the rose in anguish cried; Alas! The sky triumphant smiled, And so the flower, heart-broken, died.

- Mother and Child (by Eugene Field)

 

3.2 What interjections are used in first line?

  "Oh, give me back my heavenly child, My love!” the rose in anguish cried; Alas! The sky triumphant smiled, And so the flower, heart-broken, died.

- Mother and Child (by Eugene Field)

 

3.3 How about the second line?

  "Oh, give me back my heavenly child, My love!” the rose in anguish cried; Alas! The sky triumphant smiled, And so the flower, heart-broken, died.

- Mother and Child (by Eugene Field)

 

3.4 How about the third line?

"Forlorn! The very word is like a bell. To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! The fancy cannot cheat so well... Adieu! Adieu! Thy plaintive anthem fades" -- Ode to Nightingale (by John Keats)

4.1 What onomatopoeic interjection used in the stanza, which means as the sound of a ringing bell?

• Adieu

• Forlorn

• Bell

• Self

"Forlorn! The very word is like a bell. To toll me back from thee to my sole self! Adieu! The fancy cannot cheat so well... Adieu! Adieu! Thy plaintive anthem fades" -- Ode to Nightingale (by John Keats)

4.2 To bring the speaker out of his reverie about the nightingale back to real life, Keats uses this interjection forlorn, as well as the term "adieu." What emotion of the speaker does it indicate?

• Amazement

• Anger

• Happiness

• Sorrow