Love Poem

Love Poem

12th Grade

8 Qs

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Love Poem

Love Poem

Assessment

Quiz

English

12th Grade

Hard

CCSS
RL.11-12.8, RI. 9-10.7, RL.8.5

+8

Standards-aligned

Created by

Margaret Anderson

FREE Resource

8 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In lines 12-13, sentence fragments and a stanza break are used to

provide an ironic counterpoint to those lines' discussion of the speaker's faults

reinforce those lines' description of the beloved's relationship to space and time

mirror the glasses and vases broken by the beloved in the first stanza

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The second and fourth stanza are similar in that they both

present feelings toward the beloved that the speaker rejects at the end of the poem

reinforce the notion that the speaker's beloved cannot cope with the modern world

describe qualities of the speaker's beloved that compensate for shortcomings discussed in other stanzas

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The hyperbole in the closing sentence (lines 23-24) best conveys the speaker's

affection toward the beloved's cluminess

criticism of the beloved's many shortcomings

distress at imagining the beloved's death

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In the poem, subtle allusions to idiomatic expressions, such as "bulls in china" (line 3) and "A wrench in clocks" (line 13) mainly serve to

highlight the severity of the beloved's shortcomings

disclose a secret between the speaker and his beloved

echo language typically found in classical poetry

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Throughout the poem, the imagery emphasizes a contrast between the beloved's

worldly ambitions and private anxieties

fickle personality and basic good-heartedness

physical awkwardness and emotional dexterity

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The poem as a whole can best be understood as the speaker encouraging his beloved to

reconsider her rejection of him

join him in a new endeavor

continue being herself

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

The personification in the fifth stanza (lines 17-20) voices the speaker's attitude to his "dear" as

genuine alarm

amused adoration

elaborate condenscension

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

8.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

In the context, the speaker's use of the word "traffic" (line 15) evokes both the street scenes described in lines 9-12 and the beloved's

skilled exchanges of ideas in conversation

slowness to understand the meaning of a joke

willingness to travel to be with people she loves

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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