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Annabel Lee & Incident in a Rose Garden

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

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Class
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1.

Rose Garden - In line 6, the poet uses a simile to suggest that Death...

a)

appears gaunt in stature

b)

acts as a comical character

c)

portrays a sinister figure

d)

depicts an agricultutral tool

2.

Rose Garden - Re-read Lines 37 through 43...The poet's description in these lines emphasizes that Death...

a)

appears to be malicious and cruel

b)

functions as a friendly visitor

c)

seems to threaten the gardener

d)

acts impolitely towards the gardener

3.

Rose Garden - What is the most likely reason the poet italicizes lines 4 - 18?

a)

to emphasize the poem's central message

b)

to indicate a change in the poem's message

c)

to highlight a shift in speaker

d)

to introduce new details about the theme

4.

Rose Garden - The roses are important to the poem because they represent...

a)

the delicateness of life

b)

reflecting on the past

c)

lack of change over time

d)

discontented feelings from reality

5.

Rose Garden - Beginning with line 20, the spreaker's tone shifts from...

a)

fearful to matter-of-fact

b)

calm to sarcastic

c)

caustic to alarming

d)

calm to disdainful

6.

Rose Garden - The conflict in "Incident in a Rose Garden" is resolved when...

a)

the master asks Death to leave the garden

b)

Death admits that he has taken his master's father

c)

Death reveals that he has come for the master

d)

Death and the master become good friends

7.

Annabel Lee - Which words best help the reader understand the connotation of the word "seraphs" in line 21?

a)

love

b)

heaven

c)

coveted

d)

wind

8.

Annabel Lee - The sea can best be interpreted as symbolic of...

a)

the speaker's refusal to be bound by the past

b)

Annabel's limited perspective

c)

the speaker's vast grief

d)

the couple's love being finite

9.

Annabel Lee - Which of these best states the poem's theme?

a)

Great love stands the test of time

b)

Love makes everyone happy

c)

Love leaves you unfulfilled

d)

Young people should not get married

10.

Annabel Lee - Which of the following lines best suggests the reason the speaker believes that Annabel Lee died?

a)

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven/Coveted her and me

b)

I was a child and she was a child/In this kingdome by the sea

c)

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

d)

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

11.

The primary similarity between the two poems is the belief that...

a)

death is a fearful and wretched presence

b)

death can be negotiated with

c)

death is a comforting embrace

d)

death takes us without warning

12.

Annabel Lee - Which word is a synonym for dissever?

a)

separate

b)

admire

c)

sadness

d)

angel