My Last Duchess, Robert Browning Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
What quote uses a rhetorical question and enjambment to reveal the duchess could be easily flattered?
A
“She had
A heart—how shall I say?”
2
Q
What quote uses anaphora to showcase the Duchess’s kind gazes as flirtatious?
A
“She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”
3
Q
What quote uses multiple hyphens to fasten the pace of the poem and exaggerate the Duke’s powerful lineage?
A
“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”
4
Q
What quote uses symbolism to represent the Duke as Neptune (god of the sea) taming a sea horse (symbol of his wife)?
A
“Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse,”