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1. What literary device is demonstrated in the lines “Paint / Must never hope to reproduce the faint / Half-flush that dies along her throat” (Lines 17-19)?
A. Idiom
B. Enjambment
C. Allusion
D. Simile
2. Which of these is the best example of a metaphor?
A. “Fra Pandolf’s hands / Worked busily” (Lines 3-4)
B. “gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name” (Line 33)
C. “spot of joy” (Line 21)
D. “your master’s known munificence” (Line 49)
3. Which of these is the best example of hyperbole?
A. “all smiles stopped together” (Line 46)
B. “E’en then would be some stooping” (Line 42)
C. “her looks went everywhere” (Line 24)
D. “depth and passion of its earnest glance” (Line 8)
4. Which of these ideas best describes the theme of the poem?
A. The speaker is jealous of his late wife’s romantic attentions towards others.
B. The speaker feels insecure about his social status.
C. The speaker places women on a pedestal.
D. The speaker experiences a deep need for power and control.
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