The sick rose 🤢🌹🌹 Flashcards
how many stanzas in the sick rose?
‘The Sick Rose’ by William Blake is a two stanza poem
what is the rhyme scheme of the sick rose?
A) ABAB CDCD
B) ABCB DEFE
C) ABCD EFEF
D) AABB CCDD
B) ABCB DEFE
what is the cause of the sickness that the rose is suffering from?
“invisible worm.”
That flies in the night
In the howling storm:
what literary device did the poet use here?
a) enjambment
b) personification
c) alliteration
a) enjambment
what does the rose represent?
female purity, chastity.
“O Rose thou art sick”
what did the poet use here?
a) apostrophe
b) enjambment
c) metaphor
a) apostrophe
“O Rose thou art sick”, “The invisible worm/That flies in the night” and “Has found out thy bed.”
are all examples of ………………..
imagery
“O Rose thou art sick”.
the assonance in this line is the repetition of the sound:
a) /k/
b) /th/
c) /o/
c)/o/
what is the meaning of assonance?
the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such
what kind of stanza does Blake employ in this poem?
A quatrain is a four-lined stanza borrowed from Persian poetry. Here, each stanza is a quatrain.
calling out to the rose can be a form of………..
a) personification
b) alert
c) adoration
a) personification
the sick rose was published in
a) 1801
b)1700
c)1794
c)1794
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
attributing human characteristics (“love”) to inhuman things (the worm) is called…………….
personification.
what is the meter used in “ the sick rose”?
anapestic dimeter: An anapest is a three-syllable foot that has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable
for example: And his dark sec-ret love.
*وده بقى السطر الوحيد الى التزم فيه بالرايم ده 😐😐😐
O rose thou art sick.
the first two syllables are what we call :
a) an iambic ( two unstressed syllables)
b)spondee (two stressed syllables)
b)spondee (two stressed syllables)
