Reread these lines from the poem:Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster shellsBesides meter, which is another sound effect in these lines?A.The settings in hotels and restaurantsB.The repetition of the letters t and sC.The image of sawdust on restaurant floorsD.The description of hotels as being "cheap"

Read these lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock":Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster shellsWhich best explains the metrical pattern of these lines?A.They represent the strict iambic pentameter that persists throughout the poem.B.They are an unusual example of trochaic pentameter in a mostly unmetered poem.C.They strongly resemble iambic pentameter, though other lines in the poem do not.D.They are written in trochaic pentameter, though the rest of the poem is iambic.

eread these lines from the poem:Of why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.Which best describes the tone of these lines?A.RomanticB.SeriousC.AbsurdD.Unhappy

Which of these examples, taken from various novels, contains a metaphor?I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.Although a fog rolled over the city in the small hours, the early part of the night was cloudless, and the lane, which the maid’s window overlooked, was brilliantly lit by the full moon.... the houses opposite were mere phantoms.

Which is the best example of metonymy in the poem?A.Using images of loneliness and solitudeB.Using animal imagery to describe fogC.Using the word restless to convey a moodD.Using "oyster shells" to give a sense of a restaurantSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Select the correct answer.What word best describes the tone of this excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe?I looked upon the scene before me—upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly sensation more properly than to the after-dream of the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into everyday life—the hideous dropping off of the veil. There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to think—what was it that so unnerved me in the contemplation of the House of Usher? It was a mystery all insoluble; nor could I grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded upon me as I pondered. I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows. A. admiration B. terror C. hope D. discovery E. loss