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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where in the Highlands is the field where the woman is standing?
2. What technique is used in phrases like "the Vale profound" (line 7) and "A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard" (line 13)?
3. Where are "the farthest Hebrides" (line 16)?
4. What technique is employed in lines 7 and 8, "O listen! for the Vale profound / Is overflowing with the sound"?
5. What reasonable inference can be made about the reaper from line 17, "Will no one tell me what she sings?"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the mention of "spring-time" in line 14's description of the cuckoo enhances the contrast between this image and the image of the nightingale.
2. What are the names of the two forms of poetry that are combined in this poem, and how are they combined?
3. How does the speaker's line 26 description of the reaper singing "As if her song could have no ending" reinforce the meaning of the poem's ending?
4. What question does the speaker ask in the third stanza, and what two contrasting answers does he speculate about?
5. To which two birds does the speaker compare the reaper, and what area of the world does the speaker associate with each?
6. Describe the meter of "The Solitary Reaper."
7. Describe the rhyme scheme of "The Solitary Reaper."
8. Describe the tense shift in "The Solitary Reaper" and explain what it reveals about the poem's narrative present.
9. In what way do the places associated with the two birds create a dramatic contrast with one another?
10. Summarize the action of "The Solitary Reaper."
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you compare and contrast the explicit treatment of music with the implicit treatment of poetry in "The Solitary Reaper." Support your claims with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the relationship of music to ideas about memory and history in "The Solitary Reaper." Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you analyze how linebreak is used to support meaning in "The Solitary Reaper." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
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