The Echoing Green Poem

What is the setting of this poem

• the nest of a bird

• bush where birds live

• the echoing green

• the home of Old John

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What is "The Echoing Green"?

• Song

• Story

• Poem

• Paragraph

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Who wrote "The Echoing Green"?

• Emily Dickenson

• Edger Allen Poe

• William Shakespear

• William Blake

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What arises at the beginning of the poem and descends at the end?

• The sky

• The sun

• The moon

• The echoing green

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Read the second stanza of the poem. What can you infer from this stanza about Old John?

• Old John spends most of his time worrying.

• Old John used to play on the echoing Green in his childhood days

• Old John likes being an old man more than he liked being a boy.

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Who were the characters in "The Echoing Green"

• Old Dan, birds, children, fathers, babies, moon, stars.

• Old Sarah, uncles, aunts, kids, worms, stars, Old women.

• Old Brian, crows, nephews, toddlers, dogs, moons

• The Old Folks, birds, children, girls and boys, Old John, mothers, the sun

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Who is described in the 2nd stanza?

• The sun

• The sports

• Old John

• Mothers

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Write the visual image of these lines?

• Birds are flying around the bushes

• Children are playing

• The sun does arise

• Children are resting in their mother's lap.

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What is the effect of the line breaks in lines 11 through 14?

• The speaker pauses at each comma to signify the rising of the sun.

• The speaker pauses at each comma, giving the effect of a melancholy reflection on "Old John," the only person named in the poem.

• The speaker pauses at each comma, giving the effect of an overall happy mood.

• The speaker does not pause after each comma.

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What mood do the line breaks create in lines 21 and 22?

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