Figurative Language Poem 7
A Lady by Amy Lowell
Which is an example of SIMILE?
You are beautiful and faded / Like an old opera tune
And the perfume of your soul / Is vague and suffusing
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
In your eyes / Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes,
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Why do you believe that this is SIMILE? Explain your answer.
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Which is an example of METAPHOR?
Or like the sun-flooded silks / Of an eighteenth-century boudoir.
And I grow mad with gazing
You are beautiful and faded / Like an old opera tune
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
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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"
Personification
Hyperbole
Repetition
Simile
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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"
Allusion
Understatement
Simile
Hyperbole
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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 is about a person who collects coins.
This poem is about a woman who plays an instrument in a band.
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Why do you believe this? Refer to the text in your answer.
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Which best describes the MOOD of this poem?
Still and calm
Dark and gloomy
Tense and exciting
Sad and mournful
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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
Ungrateful and whiny
Intrigued and admiring
Disrespectful and rude
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Why do you believe this? What words does the speaker use that most express this tone?
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