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Grade 11 The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere CCSS: CCRA.R.5, RL.11-12.5

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Although the poet conducted research when writing the poem, many of the facts were still embellished. This was most likely for...
  1. poetic effect
  2. rhyme scheme
  3. diction
  4. metaphors
Grade 11 Thanatopsis
According to the poem, what should people do when they feel afraid of death?
  1. Keep very busy and think about life.
  2. Go into Nature and listen to what Nature teaches.
  3. Read poetry about Nature outdoors under the sky.
  4. Spend plenty of time with friends and family.
Grade 11 Poetry
Individualists are also known as
  1. naturalists.
  2. free thinkers.
  3. traditionalists.
  4. accomplished poets.
Grade 11 Poetry
Which of the following would be an example of individualism or individualist philosophy?
  1. Reciting Edgar Allen's Poe's "The Raven"
  2. Completing a drawing of a person using a live model
  3. Creating an acrostic poem using your initials
  4. Singing "America The Beautiful" in public
Grade 11 The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere CCSS: CCRA.R.1, RL.11-12.1

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Original titled "Paul Revere's Ride," the title was changed to "The Landlord's Tale."
The landlord most likely represents...
  1. Paul Revere's occupation
  2. The speaker in the poem
  3. The author of the poem
  4. Paul Revere's nickname
Grade 11 Poetry
Identify the type of couplet.

'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill.
  1. Heroic couplet
  2. Elegiac couplet
  3. Chinese couplet
  4. Sonnet couplet
Grade 11 Thanatopsis
According to the last stanza, how should people regard death?
  1. Happily, as floating on a cloud
  2. Comforted, as surrounded by a quilt
  3. Angrily, as one who has been betrayed
  4. Fiercely, like a slave being forced to do something against his will
Grade 11 Poetry
The line "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." is from which poem?
  1. God, Give Us Men!
  2. The Rainy Day
  3. The Road Not Taken
  4. Loss and Gain
Grade 11 Thanatopsis
Which statement best summarizes the cycle described in this poem?
  1. The dead are replaced by the living, who die in turn.
  2. The natural world is destructive.
  3. Nature speaks to us gently, then harshly.
  4. We move from cheerfulness to sorrow and back again
Grade 11 Poetry
Identify the type of couplet.

Dragon and phoenix bring the prosperity
Peach and apricot blossoms welcome the spring
  1. Heroic couplet
  2. Elegiac couplet
  3. Chinese couplet
  4. Sonnet couplet
Grade 11 Poetry
Identify the type of couplet.

There was a time in my demented youth
When somehow I suspected that the truth
  1. Heroic couplet
  2. Elegiac couplet
  3. Chinese couplet
  4. Sonnet couplet
Grade 11 Poetry
The author of "The Road Not Taken" is who?
  1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  2. Robert Frost
  3. Emily Dickinson
  4. Sara Teasdale
  5. John Masefield
  6. Alan Seeger
  7. Oliver Wendell Holmes
  8. Martha Snell Nicholson
Grade 11 Thanatopsis
In this poem, Nature urges the poet to find comfort in
  1. the fact that he is young and will not die soon
  2. the idea that he will be famous after he dies
  3. knowledge that he will join others as he dies
  4. knowledge that everyone alive fears death
Grade 11 The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere CCSS: CCRA.R.2, RL.11-12.2

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What does the poem describe?
Grade 11 Thanatopsis

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What does the speaker advise us to do when we have thoughts that make us "shudder, and grow sick at heart"?
  1. Try to think about something else
  2. Get help from a friend
  3. Go to counseling
  4. Go outside and listen to Nature's teachings
Grade 11 Poetry
In William Wordsworth's "The Daffodils", what is the correct phrasing of the following line?
  1. A show, of yellow daffodils
  2. A display, of golden daffodils
  3. A host, of golden daffodils
  4. An array, of yellow daffodils
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