Dover Beach

The form of the poem is...

• a Petrachan sonnet

• free verse

• free or open verse but using some elements of the sonnet

• an unusually complex haiku that breaks all the rules

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What aspect of the environment is personified when it is described as using pebbles to 'fling' ?

• The wind

• The sunshine

• The horses

• The sea

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In the second part of the poem, words such as 'moon-blanched', 'grating roar' and 'tremulous cadence' suggest that

• the world is about to end

• there is more pain, turmoil and insecurity that the narrator initially thought

• the narrator is struggling to get to sleep

• the beach is very busy with tourists

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What techniques does Arnold use in the following lines to suggest the waves of the sea and the tide pulling in and out: "Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in. "

• pathetic fallacy

• trochaic inversion

• internal rhyme and fricative alliteration

• enjambment, caesura and a type of repetition called polysyndeton,

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"To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new"

The simile used in these lines suggests that:

• Arnold is very optimistic that the future will be better than the past

• Arnold thinks that optimism about modernity is attractive but not real

• Arnold thinks the Dover Beach is very beautiful

• Arnold was describing a dream he had

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which genre is Dover Beach related to ?

• short story

• poem

• Drama

• essay

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who is the poem written by ?

• Bessie Head

• Robert Frost

• Matthew Arnold

• None

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Who wrote Dover Beach?

• Matthew Arnold

• Mark Twain

• Pocahontas

• Allison Goodman

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Which of the following best describes the authors purpose in lines 1-5:

• The author wants to describe the sea and its wondrous details

• The author wants to foreshadow for the rest of the poem.

• The author wants to describe effective imagery to further enhance the descriptive features of the poem.

• The author wants to show rhyming effectiveness.

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What is the central theme of 'Dover Beach'?

• A) The beauty of nature

• B) The conflict between science and religion

• C) The loss of faith and certainty

• D) The joy of love

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