1. “The Second Coming” most closely follows which poetic form?

A) free verse

B) sonnet

C) blank verse

D) epic

2. Which of the following phrases contains an example of consonance?

A) “Turning and turning in the widening gyre”

B) “A gaze blank and pitiless”

C) “The darkness drops again”

D) “Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”

3. The repetition of “Surely” at the beginnings of Lines 9 and 10, and the repetition of “at hand” at the end of those same lines is an example of __________.

A) epigraph

B) symploce

C) alliteration

D) metaphor

4. What narrative perspective (point of view) does the poem use? (short answer)

5. What is one example of alliteration in the poem? (short answer)