Read the poem below and answer the question below:
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
The metrical structure is predominantly
- A. trochaic
- B. dactyllic
- C. iambic
- D. spondaic
Read the poem below and answer the question below:
Miniver Cheevy, child of scorn,
Grew lean while he assailed the seasons
He wept that he was ever born,
And he had reasons.
Miniver loved the days of old
When swords were bright and steeds prancing
The vision of a warrior bold
Would set him dancing.
child of scorn illustrates
- A. euphemism
- B. contrast
- C. metaphor
- D. metonymy
The third stanza of the Shakespearean sonnet is
- A. couplet
- B. sextet
- C. octave
- D. quatrain
A dead metaphor is
- A. overused and ineffective
- B. implied and not funny
- C. implied and underused
- D. overused and funny
The moon looked on the massacre in horror ! illustrates
- A. pathetic fallacy
- B. prologue
- C. epilogue
- D. transferred epithet