Midterm Exam Review

What type of imagery is most prevalent throughout the poem?

• Urban imagery
• Rural imagery
• Celestial imagery
• Industrial imagery

What literary device is used in the line 'To sell them off their feet and go in cars'?

• Similie
• Alliteration
• Personification
• Metaphor

Which literary device is used in the line 'The city had withdrawn into itself'?

• Personification
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Alliteration

What does the phrase 'houses all are churches and have spires' represent?

• Literal description
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole

What type of contrast is established in the first stanza?

• Light vs. Dark
• City vs. Country
• Old vs. Young
• Rich vs. Poor

What figure of speech is used in 'My woods—the young fir balsams like a place'?

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Hyperbole

How does Frost use enjambment in the poem?

• To create rhythm
• To emphasize certain words
• To continue thoughts across line breaks
• He doesn't use enjambment

What type of irony is present in the speaker's initial response to the stranger?

• Verbal irony
• Situational irony
• Dramatic irony
• Cosmic irony

How does Frost use repetition in the poem?

• To create a rhyme scheme
• To emphasize key ideas
• To establish a rhythm
• He doesn't use repetition

What type of symbolism do the Christmas trees represent in the poem?

• Industrialization
• Nature's beauty
• Religious faith
• Childhood innocence