26. There’s a patch of old snow in a corner.
a. simile b. metaphor c. imagery d. irony e. repetition
SECTION 3 – WHOLE POEMS: Read the poems and the questions. Choose the BEST answer.
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,--
This debt we pay to human guile
1
;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad
2
subtleties
3
.
Why should the world be overwise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
4
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
1. Guile: treacherous cunning; skillful deceit.
2. Myriad: a vast number; many.
3. Subtleties: being difficult to detect.
4. Vile: loathsome; disgusting.
5. Docile: yielding to direction.
Poet Among Barbarians
By: John Gould Fletcher
The rain drives, drives endlessly,
Heavy threads of rain;
The wind beats at the shutters,
The surf drums on the shore;
Drunken telephone poles lean sideways;
Dank summer cottages gloom hopelessly;
Bleak factory-chimneys are etched on the filmy distance,
Tepid
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with rain.
It seems I have lived for a hundred years
Among these things;
And it is useless for me now to make complaint against them.
For I know I shall never escape from this
Dull barbarian country,
Where there is none now left to lift a cool jade winecup,
Or share with me a single human thought.
6. Tepid: only slightly warm; luke warm.
27. Which of the above poems has a continuous rhythm?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems
28. Which of the above poems use rhyme?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems
29. Which of the above poems uses more hyperbole?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems
30. Which of the above poems uses enjambment?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems
31. Which of the above poems uses metaphor?
a. We Wear the Mask b. Poet Among Barbarians
d. neither of these poems c. both of these poems