Poetry Unit

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Poetry Unit

• Practice Test Questions 3

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• 1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,
• 2 And hermits are contented with their cells,
• 3 And students with their pensive citadels
• 4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
• 5 Sit blithe and happy bees that soar for
  bloom,
• 6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,
• 7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells
• 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom
• 9 Ourselves no prison is and hence for me,
• 10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
• 11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground
• 12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs
  must be)
• 13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
• 14 Should find brief solace there, as I have
  found.

• 1. In line 3, the phrase pensive citadels can
  best be rephrased as
• towers in which students are imprisoned
• castles under attack
• dreary fortresses
• hideaways for contemplation

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• 1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,
• 2 And hermits are contented with their cells,
• 3 And students with their pensive citadels
• 4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
• 5 Sit blithe and happy bees that soar for
  bloom,
• 6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,
• 7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells
• 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom
• 9 Ourselves no prison is and hence for me,
• 10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
• 11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground
• 12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs
  must be)
• 13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
• 14 Should find brief solace there, as I have
  found.

• 2. The we of line 8 could refer to all of the
  following EXCEPT
• criminals
• poets
• nuns
• hermits
• students

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• 1 NUNS fret not at their convent's narrow room,
• 2 And hermits are contented with their cells,
• 3 And students with their pensive citadels
• 4 Maids at the wheel, the weaver at his loom,
• 5 Sit blithe and happy bees that soar for
  bloom,
• 6 High as the highest peak of Furness fells,
• 7 Will murmur by the hour in foxglove bells
• 8 In truth the prison unto which we doom
• 9 Ourselves no prison is and hence for me,
• 10 In sundry moods, 'twas pastime to be bound
• 11 Within the Sonnet's scanty plot of ground
• 12 Pleased if some souls (for such there needs
  must be)
• 13 Who have felt the weight of too much liberty,
• 14 Should find brief solace there, as I have
  found.

• 3. The figure of speech in line 11, Within the
  Sonnets scanty plot of ground is
• a simile comparing the writing of poetry to a
  field
• a simile comparing the poet and a farmer
• a metaphor comparing the sonnet and a small piece
  of land
• a metaphor comparing writing poetry and gardening