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A Dream within a dream

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.Who is the poet of A dream within a dream?

a)

Maram Hamadeh

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Langston Hughes

2.

2.How many stanzas do we have in the poem?

a)

One

b)

Two

c)

Three

3.

3." Yet if hope has flown away" this an example of:

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile.

c)

repetition

4.

Personification means:

a)

To be a good person

b)

To give the characteristics of living things to non living things.

5.

5." Grains of the golden sand", the grains of sand symbolize:

a)

Life and time which pass quickly.

b)

the beach and the shore.

c)

His beloved one.

6.

6.An example of repetition in the poem:

a)

But a dream within a dream

But a dream within a dream....

b)

Is it therefore the less gone?

All that we see or seem...

7.

7." How few! yet how they creep..

Through my fingers to the deep....

a)

The sand keeps slipping through the speaker's fingers , the same as time passes quickly.

b)

The sand is wet that's why it keeps slipping from his hand.

8.

8.pitiless wave, is :

a)

personification

b)

simile

9.

9." Roar " is the sound of :

a)

cows

b)

lions

c)

mice

10.

10.The theme of the poem is about:

a)

Nature of reality and life

b)

Nature of the waves and sea

c)

sand

11.

11."creep" means:

a)

jump

b)

move slowly

c)

dance

12.

12.An example of metaphor in the poem:

a)

The speaker compares his days and life to a dream, both are quick and fast and you can't take anything with you.

b)

The speaker compares the hope to a bird.

13.

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?

a)

to confess

b)

to cry

c)

to say goodbye

14.

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?

a)

He is admiring the beauty of the sand falling from his hand

b)

He realizes he is unable to save everything from disappearing.

c)

He realizes he is going crazy

15.

15. While I weep.. while I weep!

This is an example of:

a)

Simile

b)

Repetition

16.

16.The feelings of the speaker in the poem are:

a)

Confusion and sadness

b)

joy

c)

hope