WorksheetsAnnabel Lee & Incident in a Rose Garden
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Rose Garden - In line 6, the poet uses a simile to suggest that Death...
appears gaunt in stature
acts as a comical character
portrays a sinister figure
depicts an agricultutral tool
Rose Garden - Re-read Lines 37 through 43...The poet's description in these lines emphasizes that Death...
appears to be malicious and cruel
functions as a friendly visitor
seems to threaten the gardener
acts impolitely towards the gardener
Rose Garden - What is the most likely reason the poet italicizes lines 4 - 18?
to emphasize the poem's central message
to indicate a change in the poem's message
to highlight a shift in speaker
to introduce new details about the theme
Rose Garden - The roses are important to the poem because they represent...
the delicateness of life
reflecting on the past
lack of change over time
discontented feelings from reality
Rose Garden - Beginning with line 20, the spreaker's tone shifts from...
fearful to matter-of-fact
calm to sarcastic
caustic to alarming
calm to disdainful
Rose Garden - The conflict in "Incident in a Rose Garden" is resolved when...
the master asks Death to leave the garden
Death admits that he has taken his master's father
Death reveals that he has come for the master
Death and the master become good friends
Annabel Lee - Which words best help the reader understand the connotation of the word "seraphs" in line 21?
love
heaven
coveted
wind
Annabel Lee - The sea can best be interpreted as symbolic of...
the speaker's refusal to be bound by the past
Annabel's limited perspective
the speaker's vast grief
the couple's love being finite
Annabel Lee - Which of these best states the poem's theme?
Great love stands the test of time
Love makes everyone happy
Love leaves you unfulfilled
Young people should not get married
Annabel Lee - Which of the following lines best suggests the reason the speaker believes that Annabel Lee died?
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/Coveted her and me
I was a child and she was a child/In this kingdome by the sea
And neither the angles in heaven above/Nor the demons down under the sea/Can ever dissever my soul from the soul/Of the beautiful Annabel Lee
So that he highborn kinsman came/And bore her away from me/To shut her up in a sepulcher/In this kingdom by the sea
The primary similarity between the two poems is the belief that...
death is a fearful and wretched presence
death can be negotiated with
death is a comforting embrace
death takes us without warning
Annabel Lee - Which word is a synonym for dissever?
separate
admire
sadness
angel
