Quote --> Technique

Question 1

“In the room the women come and go\ talking of Michelangelo”

Answer 1

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Rhyming Couplet, Bathos

Question 2

“And time for all the works and days of hands\that lift and drop a question on your plate”

Answer 2

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Synecdoche

Question 3

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

Answer 3

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Rhetorical Question, irony

Question 4

“But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns across the screen”

Answer 4

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Metaphor, Allusion

Question 5

“I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think they will sing to me”

Answer 5

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Pessimism, tone, mythical allusion.

Question 6

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”

Answer 6

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Paradox, Metaphor

Question 7

“And for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of a toast and tea.”

Answer 7

Poem: Prufrock

Technique: Synecdoche

Question 8

“A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps”

Answer 8

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Bathos, Rhyming couplet

Question 9

“In a thousand furnished rooms”

Answer 9

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Hyperbole

Question 10

“The thousand sordid images\of which your soul was constituted”

Answer 10

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Imagrey

Question 11

“And you heard the sparrows in the gutters”

Answer 11

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Imagery, symbolism

Question 12

“And short square fingers stuffing pipes, and evening newspapers, and eyes\assured of certain certainties.”

Answer 12

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Synecdoche

Question 13

“The worlds revolve like ancient women\gathering fuel in vacant lots”

Answer 13

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Imagery, Bathos

Question 14

“With the other masquerades that time resumes”

Answer 14

Poem: Preludes

Technique: Motif

Question 15

“As a madman shakes a dead geranium”

Answer 15

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Simile

Question 16

“Every street lamp that I pass beats like a fatalistic drum”

Answer 16

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Personification, musicality

Question 17

“Whispering lunar incantations dissolve the floors of memory”

Answer 17

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Motif, Metaphor

Question 18

“A twisted branch upon the beach\eaten smooth, as if the world gave up\the secret of its skeleton”

Answer 18

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Symbolism, simile

Question 19

“I could see nothing behind that child’s eye”

Answer 19

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Ironic reversal of romanticist imagery.

Question 20

“The last twist of the knife”

Answer 20

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Hyperbolic anticlimax

Question 21

“La lune ne garde aucune rancune”

Answer 21

Poem: Rhapsody

Technique: Allusion, symbolism, motif

Question 22

“The very dead of winter… the summer palaces on slopes, the terraces”

Answer 22

Poem: Magi

Technique: Pathetic Fallacy, juxtaposition

Question 23

“With the voices singing in our ears, saying that this was all folly”

Answer 23

Poem: Magi

Technique: Fragmentation, Rejection of traditional narrative

Question 24

“With a running stream… And three trees in a low sky”

Answer 24

Poem: Magi

Technique: Allusion

Question 25

“Six hands at an open door dicing for pieces of silver”

Answer 25

Poem: Magi

Technique: Synecdoche, allusion

Question 26

“And I would do it again, but set down-this set down-this:”

Answer 26

Poem: Magi

Technique: Enjambment, voice (Temporal shift)

Question 27

“Were we led all this way for birth or death?”

Answer 27

Poem: Magi

Technique: Rhetorical Question

Question 28

“I should be glad of another death”

Answer 28

Poem: Magi

Technique: Voice

Question 29

“Mistah Kurtz- He dead.
A penny for the old guy

We are the hollow men, 
We are the stuffed men, 
Headpeice filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
are quiet and meaningless,
as wind in dry grass, 
or rats feet over broken glass, 
in our dried cellar."

Answer 29

Poem: The Hollow Men

Technique: Intertextuality
Juxtaposition
Objective correlative, rhyme and more

Question 30

“Let me also wear

such deliberate disguises”

Answer 30

Poem: The Hollow Men

Technique: Irony

Question 31

“Behaving as the wind behaves- no nearer”

Answer 31

Poem: The Hollow Men

Technique: Symbolism

Question 32

“Lips that would kiss form prayers to broken stone”

Answer 32

Poem: The Hollow Men

Technique: Symbolism