A Noiseless Patient Spider!

What does the poet mean by the word mark’d in lines 1 and 2 of the poem?

• wrote a symbol

• paid notice

• observed

• informed

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‘Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself…’

Which poetic device has been used in these lines to create a certain aural quality in the poem?

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

• simile

• repetition

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Match the spider’s qualities to the lines that the poet uses in the poem.

• isolated

• Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.

• persistent

• It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself.

• tactful

• Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding

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‘Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself…’

Identify the statements that are true about the poet’s use of language.

• The words "vast" and "vacant" create imagery of an expansive emptiness, emphasizing the spider's minuscule size.

• The repetition of "filament" and its syllabic rhyme with "forth" accentuates the spider's web-spinning.

• The repetition of the word ‘filament’ says how the poet is feeling as he observes the spider spinning its web.

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Which image represents a promontory?

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Identify the interpretations that are accurate about the poem.

• The poet has used a metaphor in comparing his soul with the spider.

• The spider spinning its web reminds the poet that he must work hard too.

• As the spider expands its web, the poet wonders if his soul will also expand and find its anchor.

• The spider’s ‘vast, vacant surrounding’ is compared to the poet’s soul standing in ‘measureless oceans of space’.

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‘Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking…’

What effect does the repetition of the ‘-ing’ words have on the tone of the speaker?

• It communicates that the poet is finding peace at the sight of the gossamer web in making.

• It communicates a tone of desperation of the poet seeking something tangible to hold on to.

• It communicates a feeling of reflecting upon the past to understand what could have been done differently.

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Which options use the word ‘gossamer’ accurately both in a literal and figurative sense?

• The spider's web glistened in the morning sunlight, its gossamer threads delicate and intricate.

• The early morning mist had a gossamer quality, light and ethereal, almost like a dream.

• She flung the gossamer objects on the floor and they fell with a thud.

• He admired the gossamer wings of the butterfly as it fluttered by.

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Match phrases from the following passage to their exact words from the poem. The poet uses the spider as a metaphor for the human soul's efforts to find connection and meaning in an immense and often isolating universe. The spider's patient and persistent spinning of webs mirrors the soul's continuous attempts to reach out, understand, and connect with the world around it.

• often isolating universe

• ceaselessly

• soul’s continuous attempts

• anchor

• find connection and meaning

• detached

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