Will mark the brainiest
1. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
"but who hath seen her wave her hand? /or at the casement seen her stand? "
a. hinged door
b. hinged cabinet
c. hinged window
d. hinged trapdoor

2. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
"sometimes a group of damsels glad,/an abbot on an ambling "
a. thin, wispy apparitions
b. colorful dancing flames
c. small, delicate snowflakes
d. young unmarried women

3. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word
"match'd with an aged wife, i mete and dole/unequal laws unto a savage "
a. collect
b. give up
c. sigh
d. weep

4. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
"tho' much is taken, much abides. ."
a. expands
b. remains as is
c. becomes stronger
d. vanishes on its own

5. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
" and these are but the shatter'd stalks, /or ruin'd chrysalis of one."
a. grim warning
b. bright beacon
c. protective shell
d. complex deception

6. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
"the count your master's known munificence/is ample warrant that no just pretense of mine for dowry will be "
a. duplicity
b. generosity
c. honesty
d. hostility

7. choose the word or phrase that best defines the italicized word.
"retreating, to the breath/of the night wind, down he vast edges drear .."
a. gloomy
b. steep
c. thrilling
d. unknown

8. read these lines from alfred, lord tennyson's the lady of shalott.
"on either side the river lie long fields of barley and of rye./that clothe the wold and meet the sky: /and through the field the road runs by/to many-towered " to whose home does the road lead?
a. beowulf
b. grendel
c. the wife of bath
d. king arthur

9. read these lines from alfred, lord tennyson's "ulysses."
"it little profits that an idle king /by this still hearth, among these barren crags,/match'd with an aged wife. i mete and dole/unequal laws unto a savage race. that horde, and sleep, and feed, and know not me."
which of the following is the speaker lamenting in the passage above?
a. the long-ago death of his wife
b. a lack of true fulfillment in his life
c. living in a constant state of danger
d. the degree of authority he is forced to wield

10.read these final lines from gerard manley hopkins's "pied beauty"
"whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how? ) with swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim: /he fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: /praise him."
with which of these sentiments does hopkins conclude his poem?
a. much in creation is imperfect, if not dangerous.
b. all of the creation serves as a reason to revere god.
c. true beauty comes from from things that remain constant.
d. everything has an opposite, and the right choices must be made.

11. which excerpt from gerard manley hopkins's "spring and fall" describes grief as a self- centered act?
a. it is the blight man was born for/it is margaret you mourn for "
b. "now no matter, child, the name: /sórrow's springs áre the same."
c. “ah! ás the heart grows older/it will come to such sights "
d. “ nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed/what heart heard of, ghost "

12.which excerpt from thomas hardy's ah, are you digging on my grave" most clearly points out the fickleness of human affection?
a. “then who is digging on my grave? /my nearest dearest kin? "
b. "ah, are you digging on my grave/my loved one- planting rue? "
c. "why flashed it not on me/that one true heart was left behind! "
d. "she thought you no more worth her hate,/and cares not where you lie."

15. which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but a different connotative meaning than, the word buy?
a. get
b. obtain
c. purchase
d. splurge

16. which of these words has the same denotative meaning as, but a different connotative meaning than, the word slender.
a. narrow
b. skinny
c. compressed
d. needlelike

17. which of these is a collective noun
a. automobiles
b. congregation
c. cattle
d. them

18. which sentence contains a collective noun?
a. jim and louis like recess.
b. bella hates recess.
c. sarah and i play kickball at recess.
d. the class loves recess.

19. an award is given every year to the student the highest grade-point average. which of these correctly completes the sentence?
a. whom
b. who
c. which
d. that