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14. The phrase, “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion” exemplifies what literary device?
A. onomatopoeia
B. consonance
C. assonance
D. alliteration

15. What does “Jenny” do to Leigh Hunt’s speaker?
A. kisses him
B. mourns him
C. kills him
D. marries him

16. How does Byron show the passage of time in his “The Destruction of Sennacherib”?
A. allusions to Greek gods
B. allusions to the four seasons
C. discussion of an hour-glass
D. comparisons to the life of a man

17. What is Shelley’s “West Wind” a metaphor of?
A. his own art
B. God
C. the passage of time
D. the loss of innocence

18. Thanatopsis means
A. the second coming.
B. the woman without mercy.
C. crossing the bar.
D. meditation on death.

19. What is at “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?
A. a Grecian urn
B. a skylark
C. a cabin
D. a jabberwock

20. “________” uses a metaphor of a candle to explain life’s stresses.
A. First Fig
B. Fog
C. The Red Wheelbarrow
D. A Birthday

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