To a Skylark 2

How many lines are there in each stanza of the poem?

• 7

• 5

• 3

• 11

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CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

During the poem, Shelley begins using what literary device for five straight stanzas.

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the speaker's request to the Skylark in the last stanza?

• • For the bird to land near him to eat

  
  

• • To be taught

  
  

• • To come back into sight

  
  

• • To continue its song for a very long time

  
  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Besides 'Skylark', what is another greatly famous poem from the nineteenth century (Romantic period)?

• • Ode to a Nightingale

  
  

• • The Raven

  
  

• • The Crow

  
  

• • The Song of the Cranes

  
  

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Shelley wrote with what artistic drive?

• Impulse

• • Deep thought

  
  

• • Life experience

  
  

• • Love for literature

  
  

What is the rhyme scheme of 'To a Skylark'?

• ABBAB

• ABABB

• AAABB

• ABBBA

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who is hidden away in a tower in this poem?

• A maiden

• A rose

• the poet

• God

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Expressions like “pale purple even”, “Of that silver sphere” or “Till the world is wrought” are e.g. of _____

• Personification

• Repitition

• Alliteration

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Expression like “Like a cloud of fire”, “Like an unbodied joy”, “Like a glow-worm golden” are egs of ____

• Irony

• Synesthesia

• Onomotopeia

• Simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9