Holy Thursday

This poem belongs to the Songs of Innocence

• true

• false

Answer explanation

The poem belongs to the "Songs of Experience"

what is the rhyme scheme?

• ABBA and CDDC

• ABAB and CDCD

• ABAB and ABCB

• ABAB and CDDC

What are the main themes?

Answer explanation

Poverty, Selfishness, Christianity, Child exploitation

What is the correct order the first lines of each stanza?

• Is this a holy thing to see...

  For where-e'er the sun does shine...

  Is that trembling cry a song?...

  And their sun does never shine...

• Is this a holy thing to see...

  And their sun does never shine...

  For where-e'er the sun does

  shine...

  Is that trembling cry a song?...

• Is this a holy thing to see...

  For where-e'er the sun does shine...

  Is that trembling cry a song?...

  And their sun does never shine...

In this poem there's the allusion of...

Answer explanation

Ascension Day, also known as Maundy Thursday

With the synecdoche (first stanza) what does the poet suggest?

• that the children had cold hands

• that children of London had to work hard for nothing in return

• that the church rewarded the children daily

• that even the children of London's rich families had to work hard

What is the most important retorical figure in the second stanza?

• irony

• methapora

• Hyperbole

•  synecdoche

Blake uses irony to say what?

Answer explanation

• Blake wonders how it is possible not to perceive a trembling cry in their voices

In the third stanza Blake creates the image of a barren landscape

• true

• false

According to Blake, there is a solution to this problem of poor children

• true

• false