Tuesday, February 4 8th Grade Homework

What is the theme of the poem “Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins?

• Nature outlasts man.

• Everything has a meaning.

• All things must pass away.

• Children are close to nature.

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Read this excerpt from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What figure of speech is used in these lines?

He holds him with his glittering eye—
The Wedding-Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.

• exaggeration

• simile

• metaphor

• verbal irony

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Read ths excerpt from “Break, Break, Break” by Alfred Loryd Tennyson. What is the theme of the poem?

• Life seems like the endless ocean.

• One man's grief cannot stop progress.

• A moment lost in time does not return.

• People do not understand the true meaning of life.

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• Hence loathed Melancholy

• Of Cerberus, and blackest Midnight born,

• 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy;

• Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings,

• And the night-raven sings;

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

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Read this excerpt from “After Blenheim” by Robert Southey. What is the rhyme scheme of the poem?

• acbadd

• abcbdd

• abcdee

• abcbdc

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

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