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