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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 is the meaning of the word "Yon" in line 2, "Yon solitary Highland Lass"?
2. In which stanza does the speaker make it clear that this event happened some time in the past?
3. Who is the author of "The Solitary Reaper"?
4. What is the "sickle" in line 28?
5. What is the meaning of the word "lay" in the line "Or is it some more humble lay" (line 21)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the rhyme scheme of "The Solitary Reaper."
2. Summarize the action 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. Describe the tense shift in "The Solitary Reaper" and explain what it reveals about the poem's narrative present.
5. In what way do the places associated with the two birds create a dramatic contrast with one another?
6. To which two birds does the speaker compare the reaper, and what area of the world does the speaker associate with each?
7. What are the names of the two forms of poetry that are combined in this poem, and how are they combined?
8. 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?
9. Describe the meter of "The Solitary Reaper."
10. 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.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes the multiple functions performed by the apostrophe to the reader in the poem's first stanza. Support your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the significance of comparing the reaper to birds in the poem's second stanza. Defend your ideas with textual evidence.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about the cultural perspective revealed by the images of the birds in the second stanza. Be sure to support your ideas with textual evidence.
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