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Figurative Language Poem 7
A Lady by Amy Lowell
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Which is an example of SIMILE?
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
In your eyes / Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes,
You are beautiful and faded / Like an old opera tune
And the perfume of your soul / Is vague and suffusing
Why do you believe that this is SIMILE? Explain your answer.
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Which is an example of METAPHOR?
You are beautiful and faded / Like an old opera tune
Or like the sun-flooded silks / Of an eighteenth-century boudoir.
And I grow mad with gazing
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
How do you know that this is METAPHOR? What two things are being compared?
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Which technique is used in the following lines from this poem:
"And the perfume of your soul
Is vague and suffusing"
"And the perfume of your soul
Is vague and suffusing"
Personification
Hyperbole
Simile
Repetition
Why do you believe this? Explain your answer.
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Which technique is used in the following lines from this poem:
"And I grow mad with gazing
At your blent colors"
"And I grow mad with gazing
At your blent colors"
Simile
Understatement
Hyperbole
Allusion
Why do you believe this? Explain your answer.
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Which best describes the subject of this poem?
This is about two women fighting over the same man.
This is about a young woman admiring an old woman.
This poem is about a woman who plays an instrument in a band.
This is about a person who collects coins.
Why do you believe this? Refer to the text in your answer.
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Which best describes the MOOD of this poem?
Tense and exciting
Dark and gloomy
Still and calm
Sad and mournful
Why do you believe this? Explain your answer.
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Which best describes the TONE in this poem? In other words what is the speaker's attitude toward her subject?
Uninterested and bored
Disrespectful and rude
Ungrateful and whiny
Intrigued and admiring
Why do you believe this? What words does the speaker use that most express this tone?
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