Figurative Language Poem 7
A Lady by Amy Lowell
Which is an example of SIMILE?
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
You are beautiful and faded / Like an old opera tune
In your eyes / Smoulder the fallen roses of outlived minutes,
And the perfume of your soul / Is vague and suffusing
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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?
My vigor is a new-minted penny, / Which I cast at your feet.
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
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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"
Understatement
Allusion
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 poem is about a woman who plays an instrument in a band.
This is about a young woman admiring an old woman.
This is about two women fighting over the same man.
This is about a person who collects coins.
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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?
Dark and gloomy
Tense and exciting
Still and calm
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?
Disrespectful and rude
Uninterested and bored
Ungrateful and whiny
Intrigued and admiring
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Why do you believe this? What words does the speaker use that most express this tone?
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