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Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?
ABAB CDCD
ABCD ABCD
ABBA CDDC
AABB CCDD
AAAB CCCD
Explanation
A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.
Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
E. E. Cummings
Explanation
Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.
Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?
Poetry and drama
Children's literature
Realistic landscape paintings
Abstract expressionist paintings
Ceramic vases
Explanation
Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.
Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
E. E. Cummings
Explanation
Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.
Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?
Poetry and drama
Children's literature
Realistic landscape paintings
Abstract expressionist paintings
Ceramic vases
Explanation
Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.
Which of the following writers is NOT a modernist poet?
William Wordsworth
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
E. E. Cummings
Explanation
Modernism was a movement that spread through many different forms of art in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Modernism rejected what the artists saw as outdated modes. In poetry, the movement was summed up by Ezra Pound's advice to "Make it new!" and Wallace Stevens' use of blank verse, along with T. S. Eliot's writing lengthy epics of mundane life, and E.E. Cummings' reshaping the physical look of poetry. Many modernists were intentionally rejecting the romantic poets like William Wordsworth.
Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?
ABAB CDCD
ABCD ABCD
ABBA CDDC
AABB CCDD
AAAB CCCD
Explanation
A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.
Passage adapted from "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
What is the rhyme scheme for the above poem?
ABAB CDCD
ABCD ABCD
ABBA CDDC
AABB CCDD
AAAB CCCD
Explanation
A rhyme scheme identified by letter describes each rhyme with the same letter. Thus, since the poem's first and third lines rhyme, the first stanza should be marked as ABAB. Because the second stanza has a new rhyming word, the second stanza should be marked CDCD.
Federico Garcia Lorca is well-known among the art community for creating what kind(s) of artistic works?
Poetry and drama
Children's literature
Realistic landscape paintings
Abstract expressionist paintings
Ceramic vases
Explanation
Lorca is a well-known Spanish poet and dramatist; among his works are Odes and Suites, which are each collections of poetry, and El Publico (The Public), a play.
Which poet wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" and "The Heart of a Woman"?
Maya Angelou
Anne Bradstreet
Emily Dickinson
Robert Frost
Allen Ginsberg
Explanation
Maya Angelou was the author of both of these poems, in which she depicts the life of an African-American woman in mid-twentieth-century America.