English unit 2 poetry collection Answer test

What do the details in this passage suggest are the reasons that the speaker associates quails with Indians?

1. Both live together in groups. 2. Both grieve when comrades die.

Which of the following things would be most likely give a person a new perspective?

A life-changing experience.

In ¨Elliptical¨ who is the most likely speakers, and about whom are they most likely speaking?

A. Mainstream society seems is to be speaking about a group it looks down on.

Which statement best describes the form of all three poems-- ¨Sonnet, with bird¨, ¨Elliptical¨ and ¨Fences¨?

Each is written in free verse.

In these lines from ¨Fences¨ what key ides is most clearly empathized by the end-stopped lines?

The idea that the beach is for other people.

Of the following explanations, which best explains the implications of the ellipsis, or set of three dots that appear throughout ¨Elliptical¨?

The statements are so predicable that they need not be completed.

If the citizens of a country are entitled to vote, then which of the following must be true?

Their right to vote is officially recognize.

What is one meaning of the Latin prefix en-?

To put into a new state of being.

In ¨Fences¨ what is the main reason the poet uses the title ¨Fences¨?

To stress the barrier between the tourists and the speaker and her family.

To which of the following situations does the word INTERACTIONS best apply?

Two strangers striking up a conversation about things in common.

¨Sonnet, with bird¨,¨Elliptical¨ and ¨Fences¨ all explore what human experience?

Uncomfortable human barriers.

What has most likely happened if an is entrapped?

It has been running quickly.

Which of the following characteristics is true of a traditional sonnet?

It is structured as three quatrains and a couplet.

What is the most significant way in which ¨Sonnet, with bird¨ departs from traditional sonnet form?

Its fourteen ¨Lines¨are sections run together without line breaks.

Both ¨Sonnet, with bird" and ¨Elliptical¨ lack certain basic features of traditional poetry and are classified as prose poems. Which characteristics best shows why they are still considered poems?

Like many prose poems, they suggest meanings rather than stating them directly.

PART A In ¨Sonnet, with bird¨ what main emotion does the speaker feel in his London hotel? PART B Which of this quotations from ¨Sonnet, with bird¨ best supports the answer to part A?

PART A >Loneliness PART B >I keep thinking, ¨I´m the only Indian in this country right now¨,I´m the only Indian within a five-thousand-mile circle¨

PART A In ¨Sonnet, with bird¨ how do the speaker and his childhood feel when they meet again at the London pub? PART B Which of these quotations from the ¨Sonnet, with bird¨ best supports the answer to Part a?

PART A >Shocked >...he leapt over the bad and hugged me. ¨I thought I was the only Indian in England,¨ he said.

PART A From the details in ¨Fences¨ what can you infer about the TURISTAS? PART B Which quotation from ¨Fences¨ best supports the answer to Part a?

PART A >They are wealthy. PART B >The turistas come to the tall hotel/ with suitcases full of dollars.