Copy of Seashore - Test Prep

Which BEST describes the elements of “lyric poetry”?

• A story of long ago, heroic characters, universal theme
• Drama in verse form, iambic pentameter, realistic characters, various rhyme scheme
• Conflicting ideas, argumentative tone, ambiguous ending
• Personal experience, universal human truth, rhythmic language, surprising word choice

Part A – This poem is an example of -

• Transcendentalism
• Renaissance
• Romanticism
• Neoclassicalism

Part B – In which line is the statement from Part A most prevalent?

• Lie on the warm rock-ledges, and there learn (9)
• A little hut suffices like a town. (10)
• I make your sculptured architecture vain, (11)
• Vain beside mine. I drive my wedges home, (12)

Which line BEST expresses the speaker’s desire for social reform?

• Strewing my bed, and, in another age, (37)
• Rebuild a continent of better men. (38)
• A few rods off he deems it gems and clouds. (47)
• Planting strange fruits and sunshine on the shore, (48)

Behold the Sea, (18) The opaline, the plentiful and strong, (19) What does “opaline” mean?

• beautiful
• powerful
• iridescent
• exotic

Which is a summary of Stanza 1?

• The seashore is dangerous, but also necessary.
• Waves are often more powerful than they appear.
• The seashore is always there waiting for you to enjoy.
• Creatures of the sea are unique, but also connected.

I know what spells are laid. Leave me to deal (44) With credulous and imaginative man; (45) What does the word, “credulous” mean?

• Having low expectations for most circumstances in life
• Being quite grand and boisterous about your opinion
• Unnatural or mysterious events that cause sorrow
• Having or showing too great a readiness to believe things

Which lines contain direct references to mythology? Check all that apply.

• Rich are the sea-gods:--who gives gifts but they? (28)
• For every wave is wealth to Dædalus, (31)
• A load your Atlas shoulders cannot lift? (34)
• They grope the sea for pearls, but more than pearls: (29)
• They pluck force thence, and give it to the wise. (30)

Part A - Which lines contain examples of simile? Check all the apply.

• Yet beautiful as is the rose in June, (20)
• Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July; (21)
• Behold the Sea, (18)
• The opaline, the plentiful and strong, (19)
• Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds, (22)

Part B – Which line from Part A is an example of personification?

• Line 18
• Line 19
• Line 20
• Line 24