Unit 1 Poetry/Stores

Question 1

John 1: “Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.” Is this an example of allegory?

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

In “The Windows”, the “brittle crazy glass” is the preacher.

Answer 2

Yes

Question 3

Herbert’s “The Windows” is an implied metaphor.

Answer 3

False - it is an extended metaphor

Question 4

In John 1, the examples of Christ as “The word, the light, and the lamb” are examples of simile.

Answer 4

False - it is a metaphor

Question 5

In “A Bird Came Down the Walk”, the bird’s unrolling its feathers illustrates metonym.

Answer 5

True

Question 6

In “The Spider and the Wasp,” Petrunkevitch uses many examples of metaphor and simile.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Is this a metaphor or a simile? “Well, at last he could hardly flop his wings, he was so tuckered out. He comes a-drooping down, once more, sweating like an ice-pitcher.”

Answer 7

Simile (“like an ice-pitcher”)

Question 8

Is this a paradox? “Well, you’re a long hole, and a deep hole, and a mighty singular hold altogether - but I started in to fill you, and I will fill you, if it takes a hundred years!”

Answer 8

No, it is a hyperbole (a 100 years)

Question 9

Does the quote from “Return of the Rangers” illustrate imagery? “I joined Ogden, and together we clung to the rope. The raft plucked insistently at it, as if eager to be gone from us.”

Answer 9

No, personification (the raft plucked)

Question 10

Does the poem “Mother to Son” make use of a simile to communicate the theme?

Answer 10

No, it makes use of a metaphor to communicate the theme.

Question 11

Is the verse from John 1 metonymy or synecdoche? “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.”

Answer 11

This is an example of synecdoche

Question 12

How does the following quotation from John 1 show paradox? “He that comes after me is preferred before me; for he was before me.”

Answer 12

John says that even though he came first, Jesus is superior and deserves respect.

Question 13

In “The Soul’s Dark Cottage,” what does the light represent?

Answer 13

The joys and lessons of the old man’s life.

Question 14

What was the significance of Waller having written “The Soul’s Dark Cottage” when he was in his 80’s?

Answer 14

He is really talking about himself saying that he is an old cottage and the joys of life shown over time. Now, since he is older, he is near to leaving the old world to go to eternal life.

Question 15

What is the theme of “Mother to Son?”

Answer 15

No matter how challenging life is, keep going.

Question 16

In the poem, “A Bird Came Down the Walk,” the bird’s flight is compared to a ship sailing and butterflies flying. What do these metaphors mean?

Answer 16

Dickinson means that the bird struggles to fly sometimes just like a captain struggles to steer his ship

Question 17

What literary device is used in “What Stumped the Bluejays”?

Answer 17

Hyperbole

Question 18

In “The Return of the Rangers,” Robert’s many details as well as his fixation with the waterfalls serves what purpose?

Answer 18

They serve the purpose of enabling the reader to imagine what they are reading.

Question 19

What effect does Dickinson’s use of the pronouns he and his in “A Bird Came Down the Walk” have?

Answer 19

Personification