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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. What do the metaphors in lines 9-12 and 13-16 have in common?
2. Which is the best interpretation of line 6's reference to "a melancholy strain"?
3. What is the meaning of the word "lay" in the line "Or is it some more humble lay" (line 21)?
4. What is the young woman doing in the field?
5. What is the stanzaic form of "The Solitary Reaper"?
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. Describe the meter of "The Solitary Reaper."
3. What question does the speaker ask in the third stanza, and what two contrasting answers does he speculate about?
4. To which two birds does the speaker compare the reaper, and what area of the world does the speaker associate with each?
5. In what way do the places associated with the two birds create a dramatic contrast with one another?
6. Describe the tense shift in "The Solitary Reaper" and explain what it reveals about the poem's narrative present.
7. 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?
8. Describe the rhyme scheme of "The Solitary Reaper."
9. Summarize the action of "The Solitary Reaper."
10. What are the names of the two forms of poetry that are combined in this poem, and how are they combined?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you analyze how linebreak is used to support meaning in "The Solitary Reaper." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's use of caesura in the first and fourth stanzas. Support your assertions with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you use evidence from the poem to affirm, refute, or qualify the following statement: Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper' would be a less effective poem if the reader were aware of the specific song the reaper sings.
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