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WorksheetsA Dream within a dream
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
1.Who is the poet of A dream within a dream?
Maram Hamadeh
Edgar Allan Poe
Langston Hughes
2.How many stanzas do we have in the poem?
One
Two
Three
3." Yet if hope has flown away" this an example of:
Metaphor
Simile.
repetition
Personification means:
To be a good person
To give the characteristics of living things to non living things.
5." Grains of the golden sand", the grains of sand symbolize:
Life and time which pass quickly.
the beach and the shore.
His beloved one.
6.An example of repetition in the poem:
But a dream within a dream
But a dream within a dream....
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem...
7." How few! yet how they creep..
Through my fingers to the deep....
The sand keeps slipping through the speaker's fingers , the same as time passes quickly.
The sand is wet that's why it keeps slipping from his hand.
8.pitiless wave, is :
personification
simile
9." Roar " is the sound of :
cows
lions
mice
10.The theme of the poem is about:
Nature of reality and life
Nature of the waves and sea
sand
11."creep" means:
jump
move slowly
dance
12.An example of metaphor in the poem:
The speaker compares his days and life to a dream, both are quick and fast and you can't take anything with you.
The speaker compares the hope to a bird.
13.Read the following lines "Thus much let me avow, you are not wrong who deem that my days have been a dream". Which of the following best matches the meaning of the word AVOW?
to confess
to cry
to say goodbye
14.Read the following lines from the poem
" And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- While I weep! O God! Can I not grasp them with a tighter clasp? O God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave?
What can the reader suggest from these lines?
He is admiring the beauty of the sand falling from his hand
He realizes he is unable to save everything from disappearing.
He realizes he is going crazy
15. While I weep.. while I weep!
This is an example of:
Simile
Repetition
16.The feelings of the speaker in the poem are:
Confusion and sadness
joy
hope
