WorksheetsEnglish II: Semester Exam Review 2022 Poetry
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 12mins
What is the poem mainly about?
How important it is to appreciate the lovely things in life.
How valuable life itself is and why we should be cautious with our lives.
How terrible life can be most of the time and how nice moments are so rare.
What is the implied meaning of the phrase “loveliness to sell” in the poem”?
The lovely things in live have monetary value.
The lovely things in life are precious and valuable.
The lovely things in life are physical objects and can be purchased in a store.
Which location archetype is the author employing in this poem?
What is the tone of poem?
Realistic
Warning
Awestruck
How does the third stanza contribute to the speaker’s message in the poem?
What can we infer about the speaker of the poem?
He or she is a very happy person and has no experience with sadness or life's difficulties.
He or she has experienced sadness along with happiness in his or her life, and want the reader to appreciate the brief moments of happiness.
He or she is a greedy, miserly person and thinks of everything in terms of money.
What is the effect of the repetition in the poem?
The repetition of the word "things" allows for the reader to understand the scope of how various the lovely experiences in life are.
Repeating the line "life has loveliness to sell" allows for the stanzas to repeat structurally--going from the big idea to the smaller experiences or items that are lovely.
Repeating the word "like" helps the reader understand how we should feel about the objects or experiences the speaker brings up.
What is one possible theme of the poem?
The lovely moments in life, even if few and brew, are more impactful than the rest.
Life is an adventure and should be experienced.
Money adds value to life which beauty and experiences cannot outweigh.
