WorksheetsThe Cormorant
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 2mins
23. The poem is about the death of the speaker's
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24. The images of the opening stanza suggest a movement from
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25. The speaker's reaction to the return of her family implies that she
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26. Lines 6-11 contain examples of all of the following EXCEPT
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27. The phrase "these drawling compensations of the moon," is a reference to...
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28. The death to which the speaker refers is contrasted by all of the following EXCEPT...
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29. The children's excursion to the shoreline--and the death that the speaker has experience--are both depicted in what type of terms?
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30. The speaker's reverie, that begins in line 17, is dissipated by
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31. In "you died alone" (line 16), the speaker possibly implies that the "mater dolorosa" stage of the deceased was initiated by the
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32. All of the following represent ways in which the speaker tries to hold on to the deceased EXCEPT
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33. All of the following help capture the finality of the deceased's passing EXCEPT
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34. The phrase "tune our clamor" (line 23) is an example of a(n)
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