The Tide Rises The Tide Falls

What is the purpose of the repetition of the tide rising and falling in the poem?

• To make sure the reader knows the setting.

• To imitate the repetition of the waves.

• To make the poem sound more professional.

• To include a literary device,

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Read the following line:

Along the sea-sands damp and brown

What is the meter of this line?

• trochaic

• anapestic

• dactylic

• iambic

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Look at the following line.

"The tide rises, the tide falls."

This line uses:

• repetition

• hyperbole

• simile

• metaphor

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Who wrote the poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"?

• John Keats

• William Shakespeare

• William Wadsworth Longfellow

• Langston Hughes

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Longfellow wrote "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls"

• when he was just starting college.

• to this first wife.

• when he graduated from Harvard University.

• towards the end of his life.

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The end rhyme of the poem reflects ...

• the constant movement of the tides

• a cold, dark tone to the poem.

• how time washes away existence.

• Longfellow's longing to live forever.

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In stanza one, the figurative meaning is that the traveler attempts to ...

• accept death.

• escape death.

• fall into the sea.

• call out to death.

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In stanza 2, the figurative meaning is that the traveler

• goes to sleep in the town.

• walks along the seashore.

• accepts the approaching hands of death.

• begins a new life.

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What is the author's message of the poem?

• Humanity and nature will interact eternally.

• Nature is indifferent to the life of humans. When a human dies, nature still continues its cycle of life.

• Your state of mind determines your fate.

• The sea is our eternal friend.

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Who wrote the poem 'The tide rises, the tide falls'

• H.G Wells

• Robert Frost

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Giyu Tomioka

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