Annabel Lee & Incident in a Rose Garden

Rose Garden - In line 6, the poet uses a simile to suggest that Death...

• appears gaunt in stature

• acts as a comical character

• portrays a sinister figure

• depicts an agricultutral tool

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

Rose Garden - Re-read Lines 37 through 43...The poet's description in these lines emphasizes that Death...

• appears to be malicious and cruel

• functions as a friendly visitor

• seems to threaten the gardener

• acts impolitely towards the gardener

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

Rose Garden - What is the most likely reason the poet italicizes lines 4 - 18?

• to emphasize the poem's central message

• to indicate a change in the poem's message

• to highlight a shift in speaker

• to introduce new details about the theme

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

Rose Garden - The roses are important to the poem because they represent...

• the delicateness of life

• reflecting on the past

• lack of change over time

• discontented feelings from reality

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Rose Garden - Beginning with line 20, the spreaker's tone shifts from...

• fearful to matter-of-fact

• calm to sarcastic

• caustic to alarming

• calm to disdainful

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

Rose Garden - The conflict in "Incident in a Rose Garden" is resolved when...

• the master asks Death to leave the garden

• Death admits that he has taken his master's father

• Death reveals that he has come for the master

• Death and the master become good friends

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Annabel Lee - Which words best help the reader understand the connotation of the word "seraphs" in line 21?

• love

• heaven

• coveted

• wind

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Annabel Lee - The sea can best be interpreted as symbolic of...

• the speaker's refusal to be bound by the past

• Annabel's limited perspective

• the speaker's vast grief

• the couple's love being finite

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

Annabel Lee - Which of these best states the poem's theme?

• Great love stands the test of time

• Love makes everyone happy

• Love leaves you unfulfilled

• Young people should not get married

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Annabel Lee - Which of the following lines best suggests the reason the speaker believes that Annabel Lee died?

• With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/Coveted her and me

• I was a child and she was a child/In this kingdome by the sea

• And neither the angles in heaven above/Nor the demons down under the sea/Can ever dissever my soul from the soul/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee

• So that he highborn kinsman came/And bore her away from me/To shut her up in a sepulcher/In this kingdom by the sea

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CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.10