The Bells

What is the overall structure of the poem?

• Four separate poems, each with its own rhyme scheme and meter.

• A single poem with four stanzas, each describing a different type of bell.

• A narrative poem with a linear story progression.

• Four sonnets with, each describing a different type of bell.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

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Match the stanza to its tone and mood.

• Stanza I

• solemn and dreary

• Stanza II

• light and joyful

• Stanza III

• alarmed and terrifying

• Stanza IV

• happy and celebratory

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

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Which structural choice in the poem "The Bells" emphasizes the shift from joy to despair?

• The decrease in stanza length as the poem progresses.

• The consistent rhyme scheme throughout the poem.

• The transition from light, happy imagery to dark, frightening imagery.

• A lack of repetition of the word ‘bells’ in the final section.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

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What is the main literary device used throughout the poem?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Personification

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

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Create a word cloud using the onomatopoeic words used in the poem.

Enter one or two words you came across.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Create

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What is the rhyme scheme followed in the poem?

• ABAB CDCD

• AABB CCDD

• ABCB DEFE

• There is no consistent rhyme scheme.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Analyze

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Recite the following lines from the poem with distinctive shifts in tone and mood.

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!

Through the balmy air of night

How they ring out their delight!

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

In the startled ear of night

How they scream out their affright!

What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!

In the silence of the night,

How we shiver with affright

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Create

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