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1.)Which quotation from the poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove includes an allusion? “Each night she lay down in pain and rose” “And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs panting” “Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window” “of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow”


2.)Which lines from "Sonnet in Primary Colors” by Rita Dove provide an example of a rhyme?

“This is for the woman with one black wing / perched over her eyes: lovely Frida, erect”
“her spine resides in, that flaming pillar— / this priestess in the romance of mirrors.”
“to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead.”
“love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”

6.)Which phrase from the poem "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden is an example of a simile?

“the serene, great picture that I love”
“the eye like the eye of faith believes”
“illusive flesh of light”
“Here is the shadow of its joy

7.)Which words from "Monet’s ‘Waterlilies’” by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of sight?

“poisons the air”
“I come again to see”
“through refracting tears”
“the seen, the known”

10.)What are the characteristics of fixed poetry? Select three options.

a regular rhyme scheme
lines of equal length
a structure that follows emotions
a set number of lines
irregular rhyme schemes

Answer 1

Question 1: Answer: B. “And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs painting.

As an allusion is a reference of a person, thing or place to something else on the writer’s mind, here the allusion is of the hundred dogs. Culturally, dogs mean loyalty, fidelity and faithfulness. The writer wants to refer to the many admirers the painter, here it is the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, has and they will stay loyal to her beautiful and colourful paintings.

Question 2: Answer D. “love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.” Here the rhyme is for the two last lines, window- brow

Although this poem has no fixed rhyme as most sonnets, the final punchlines have a strong rhyme.

Question 6: Answer B. “the eye like the eye of faith believes”. This ia a clear simile when two things are compared to each other. In this case the eye is compared to the eye of faith

Question 7: Answer A. “poisons the air”. These words give the best idea about how that time gave a sense of depression to the people in America around the Vietnam war and the civil rights clashes. When you read these words it is as if you can see the pain and sufferings of the families getting bad news from their loved ones in battle and the struggles of the African Americans for equal rights.

Question 10: Answer : the characters of fixed poetry are :

1. a regular rhyme scheme

2. a structure that follows emotions

3. a set number of lines

In fixed verse or fixed poetry there are several guidelines which the poets need to stick to in order for their poem to be considered a sonnet, a villanelle, a haiku or a limerick. The emotions are also important to follow a structure , for instance, in an Italian sonnet, the first two quatrains describe a problem, and the solution is given in the last two tercets.