Dover Beach

In “Dover Beach,” which phrase expresses a negative view of the world and humanity’s place in it?

• Listen! you hear the grating roar

• BWith tremulous cadence slow

• Cthe turbid ebb and flow / Of human misery

• DAh, love, let us be true / To one another!

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In lines 10–13 of “Dover Beach,” the poet uses commas to break up the rhythm of the poem, most likely to —

• convey the speaker’s feelings of sadness to the reader

• emphasize that the speaker’s experience inspired the poem

• help the reader understand how the sea represents religious faith

• imitate the sound of the waves going in and out on the beach

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Which choice best expresses the meaning of the last stanza of “Dover Beach”?

• AThis world may seem dreamlike, but it is really a nightmare.

• BThe world is indifferent to us, and love is our only hope for a sense of meaning.

• CConditions in the world are terrible now, and they will only get worse.

• DWar is a confusing struggle, which is fought by ignorant people.

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Which definition most closely matches the way the word fling is used in line 10

"Listen! you hear the grating roar

10 Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in"

• a brief time of unrestrained pleasures

• a spirited dance

• to throw

• to move

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Which three statements could be applied to both “Dover Beach”

• The poet uses imagery that appeals to the sense of hearing.

• An element of nature is used as a symbol of human emotion.

• The poet uses unusual syntax in the placing of modifiers.

• The setting of the poem is early morning on a winter day.

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choose the themes discussed in `Dover Beach"

• Loss of faith and uncertainty

• nature and alienation

• friendship

• creativity and invention

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In the poem, the speaker is —

• A looking out to sea from the English coast

• B sailing on a ship in the English Channel

• C swimming in the Aegean Sea

• D fighting in a war in France

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What does the speaker compare to waves pulling back from the shore?

• F Armed conflict

• G Ships sailing into the channel

• H Loss of religious faith

• J Lovers parting

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the sound devices in these Line helps create which mood?

• anxious or ominous mood

• happy mood

• melancholic mood

• serious mood

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identify the sound device used in the second line

"The tide is full, the moon lies fair

• alliteration

• assonance

• consonance

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