AP English Literature & Composition B lesson 10 Quiz please Help!!!
“Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell
All night our room was outer-walled with rain.
Drops fell and flattened on the tin roof,
And rang like little disks of metal.
Ping!—Ping!—and there was not a pin-point of silence between
them. 5
The rain rattled and clashed,
And the slats of the shutters danced and glittered.
But to me the darkness was red-gold and crocus-colored
With your brightness,
And the words you whispered to me 10
Sprang up and flamed—orange torches against the rain.
Torches against the wall of cool, silver rain!
Use the poem to answer the question.
1.What is the effect of the onomatopoeia in the poem?
A. It reflects the poem’s frightened tone.
B. It highlights the theme of missing loved ones.
C. It reveals how the rain feels during the storm.
D. It emphasizes the theme of waiting for bad things in life to pass.
E. It mimics the sound of rain to create a vivid image of the storm.
2. Which of the following structural elements best supports the interpretation that the rain is a powerful force in the narrator’s life?
A. the trochees and the iambic pentameter
B. the uneven meter in the lines and enjambment
C. the onomatopoeia and the couplet
D. the alternating rhyme and the meter
E. the dactyls and the half-rhymes
3. How does the free verse in the poem affect the tone?
A. It allows for the use of repetition that creates an angry tone.
B. It allows for the use of sound devices that create a fearful tone.
C. It allows for use of the most vivid words to create an excited tone.
D. It allows for the use of words that have no rhymes to create a natural tone.
E. It allows for the use of pauses that give the poem an anticipatory tone.
“Imagery” by Archibald MacLeish
The tremulously mirrored clouds lie deep,
Enchanted towers bosomed in the stream,
And blossomed coronals of white-thorn gleam
Within the water where the willows sleep—
Still-imaged willow-leaves whose shadows steep 5
The far-reflected sky in dark of dream;
And glimpsed therein the sun-winged swallows seem
As fleeting memories to those who weep.
So mirrored in thy heart are all desires,
Eternal longings, Youth’s inheritance, 10
All hopes that token immortality,
All griefs whereto immortal grief aspires.
Aweary of the world’s reality,
I dream above the imaged pool, Romance.
Use the poem to answer the question.
5. What is the meter in this poem?
A. trochee
B. anapest
C. spondee
D. blank verse
E. iambic pentameter
Use both “Imagery” by Archibald MacLeish and “Summer Rain” by Amy Lowell to answer the question
5. Which element of syntax appears throughout both poems?
A. caesura
B. anaphora
C. meter
D. enjambment
E. parallel structure
