Student Name: *Student ID: *Name: Last, First ID: Class Period Only 1.The first line of the poem functions asa summaryan appeala concessionan assertiona paraphrase2.Which of the following is notably unconventional in the poem?ThemeTheme and metaphorsTheme and punctuationMetaphors and punctuationTheme, metaphors, and punctuation3.All the following are contrasted in the poem EXCEPTlogic and emotionmoments and timecontrol and freedomconcrete and abstractcomplexity and simplicity4.What is the central theme in the poem?Man’s wisdom pales beside God’s.Nature has the power to heal wounded hearts.Life and death will forever remain an enigma.One should not allow one’s emotions to be controlled by reason.Physical affection proves the depths of romantic love.5.The speaker regards both a “paragraph” and a “parenthesis” asrestrictivefluidrestrictive and fluidrestrictive and structuredfluid and structured6.All the following lines are figurative EXCEPT“wholly to be a fool”“my blood approves”“the best gesture of my brain”“for life’s not a paragraph”“And death i think is no parenthesis”7.All the following are dependent clauses EXCEPT“since feeling is first”“while Spring is in the world”“than/your eyelids’ flutter”“which says/we are for each other”“leaning back in my arms”8.Which element of the poem most clearly reinforces the poem’s meaning?tonesyntaxdictiondetailsalliteration9.The sentiments expressed in the poem are closest to those expressed in which of the following quotations from other poets?“Like as the waves make toward the pebbled shore,/So do our minutes hasten to their end” (William Shakespeare)“The Heart is the Capital of the Mind—The Mind is a single State—” (Emily Dickinson)“The flowers do fade, and wanton fields/To wayward winter reckoning yields;” (Sir Walter Raleigh)“Fond are life’s lustful joys;/Death proves them all but toys;” (Thomas Nashe)“Instruct them how the mind of man becomes/A thousand times more beautiful than the earth” (William Wordsworth)
