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The New Colossus

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"the brazon giant of Greek fame"--what is being referenced?

a)

The Statue of Liberty

b)

Freedom

c)

America

d)

The Collosus of Rhodes

2.

What is the Rhyme Scheme of the poem?

(a)  

3.

A break in the line of a poem

(a)  

4.

What type of Poem is the New Collosus?

a)

haiku

b)

iambic pentameter

c)

acrostic

d)

sonnet

5.

what are the "ancient lands" referring to?

a)

England

b)

America

c)

Europe/Ancient greece

d)

the colonies

6.

Who is speaking in the poem?

(a)  

7.

Human characteristics given to an object

a)

allusion

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

personification

8.

What does the Golden door refer to?

a)

freedom

b)

heaven

c)

The statue of Liberty

d)

Ancient Rome

9.

The same letter or sound

a)

allusion

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

symbol

10.

Iambic pentameter

a)

5 iams, 10 syllables

b)

15 syllables

c)

15 iams

d)

20 syllables

11.

Is this in iambic pentameter? To be, or not to be, that is the question:

a)

yes

b)

no

12.

Is this in iambic pentameter? For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

a)

yes

b)

no

13.

How many syllables? No more; and by a sleep to say we end

a)

12

b)

10

c)

5

d)

15

14.

How many syllables? Shall I compare thee to a summers day?

a)

10

b)

8

c)

12

d)

15

15.

What does the statue of Liberty symbolize today and in the 1890's?

a)

happiness

b)

Europe is bad

c)

Freedom

d)

immirgration is great

16.

what are the two themes of the new Collosus?

a)

immigration and happiness

b)

Motherhood and Light

c)

America and Europe

d)

love and maturity

17.

Whay supports the theme of motherhood in the poem?

a)

Mother of Exiles

b)

brazen giant

c)

tempest tost

d)

beacon hand

18.

who is the mother of exiles?

a)

Helios

b)

The statue of Liberty

c)

the immigrants

d)

Emma Lazarus

19.

What did the statue of Liberty originially symbolize?

a)

freedom

b)

victory and strength

c)

motherhood

d)

love

20.

brazen giant of greek fame is an example of a

a)

alliteration

b)

simile

c)

allusion

d)

metaphor

21.

the golden door is an exmaple of a

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

alliteration

d)

allusion