Literature Level 1: Easy

Of the following, the word that BEST describes the tone of the poem’s title is

• ironic

• solemn

• romantic

• didactic

• indifferent

The third stanza contains

• simile

• synecdoche

• exclamatory statement

• litotes

• onomatopoeia

The poem is composed in

• ballad form

• free verse

• sonnet form

• blank verse

• cinquain

A pun which emphasizes the two extended metaphors in the poem is contained in the word

• mould

• meteor

• bubble

• trap

• flower

The speaker relates corruption MOST closely to

• flat areas

• population density

• meteors

• volcanoes

• metal

The predominant imagery in the passage is

• auditory

• gustatory

• tactile

• visual

• olfactory

The speaker would prefer that his children be

• materialistic

• philosophers

• uncompassionate

• critics

• ethical

Which of the following was NOT a member of the English Romantic movement?

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• William Blake

• Rudyard Kipling

• John Keats

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Flight Behavior uses which of the following as a literary device?

• supersonic jets

• drones

• bald eagles

• hummingbirds

• monarch butterflies

What is the title of Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1972 novel about nature?

• The Word for World is Forest

• Pacific Edge

• The Fifth Sacred Thing

• Ecotopia

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built