LET reviewer

1. What does the poem celebrate as shown in lines 1-2?

• A. sadness in death

• B. reverence for nature

• C. familial bonding

• D. sense of foreboding

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

2. What does the persona wish in the last two lines?

• A. that he continues to be pious

• B. that he be a child once again

• C. that he continues to be connected to nature

• D. that he fulfills his duties and responsibilities

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

3. What figure of speech does Wordsworth use in line 7?

• A. paradox

• B. metonymy

• C. oxymoron

• D. allusion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

4. What is the tone of the following lines from Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason!

How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable!

• A. amazement

• B. mockery

• C. veneration

• D. sadness

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CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

5. The following lines from Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess exemplify what poetic strategy?

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,

Looking as if she were alive. I call

That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands

Worked busily a day, and there she stands.

Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said

• A. Aside

• B. Dialogue

• C. Monologue

• D. Soliloquy

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

6. From what perspective is the following story told?

"I could picture it. I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. We went out to the Cafe Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the Boulevard." from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.

• A. First person

• B. Second person

• C. Third person omniscient

• D. Third person limited

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

7. What type of irony does Shakespeare use in Anthony’s speech?

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man.

• A. dramatic irony

• B. causal iron

• C. irony of situation

• D. verbal irony

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

8. What do the following lines from Auguries of Innocence by William Blake exhort?

To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower 

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 

And Eternity in an hour

• A. to appreciate even the smallest of things

• B. to be extremely imaginative and creative

• C. to believe in fantasy like a child

• D. to be strong and faithful to God

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

9. What poetic device is exemplified in the following lines from Edward Taylor’s “Huswifery”?

Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.

Thy holy word my distaff make for me.

Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neat

And make my soul Thy holy spool to be.

My conversation make to be Thy reel

And reel thy yarn thereon spun of Thy wheel.

• A. irony of statement

• B. pathetic fallacy

• C. a literary conceit

• D. a paradoxical line

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

10. What does the persona in “Huswifery” ask God to do?

Make me, O Lord, Thy spinning-wheel complete.

Thy holy word my distaff make for me.

Make mine affections Thy swift flyers neat

And make my soul Thy holy spool to be.

My conversation make to be Thy reel

And reel thy yarn thereon spun of Thy wheel.

• A. Complete him as a human being

• B. Bless him with food and clothing

• C. Mold him into what God wants him to be

• D. Clothe him with the finest silk from God

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4