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Answer 1

Question 1: Answer: B. “And rose to her easel, the hundred dogs painting.  

As an allusion is a reference of a person, thing or place to something else on the writer’s mind, here the allusion is of the hundred dogs. Culturally, dogs mean loyalty, fidelity and faithfulness. The writer wants to refer to the many admirers the painter, here it is the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, has and they will stay loyal to her beautiful and colourful paintings.

Question 2: Answer D. “love a skull in the circular window / of the thumbprint searing her immutable brow.”  Here the rhyme is for the two last lines, window- brow  

Although this poem has no fixed rhyme as most sonnets, the final punchlines have a strong rhyme.

Question 6: Answer B. “the eye like the eye of faith believes”. This ia a clear simile when two things are compared to each other. In this case the eye is compared to the eye of faith

Question 7: Answer A. “poisons the air”. These words give the best idea about how that time gave a sense of depression to the people in America around the Vietnam war and the civil rights clashes. When you read these words it is as if you can see the pain and sufferings of the families getting bad news from  their loved ones in battle and the struggles of the African Americans for equal rights.

Question 10: Answer : the characters of fixed poetry are :

1. a regular rhyme scheme  

2. a structure that follows emotions

3. a set number of lines

In fixed verse or fixed poetry there are several guidelines which the poets need to stick to in order for their poem to be considered a sonnet, a villanelle, a haiku or  a limerick. The emotions are also important to follow a structure , for instance, in an Italian sonnet, the first two quatrains describe a problem, and the solution is given in the last two tercets.  

Answer 2

Answer 1) Option C) "Diego’s / love a skull in the circular window”

Explanation : Allusion is considered as a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.  

It briefly describes the person here which is Diego love for skull in the circular window.

Answer 2) Option C) “to the celluloid butterflies of her Beloved dead, / Lenin and Marx and Stalin arrayed at the footstead"

Explanation : A rhyme is defined as the repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, which is most often seen in the final syllables of lines in poems.

Here, the words dead and footstead are rhyming words.

Answer 4) Option B) "the eye like the eye of faith believes"

Explanation : Here the example of simile is seen in this line "the eye like the eye of faith believes" as the eye is compared to the faith of a person. Who believes in goodness.

Answer 5) Option B) "I come again to see"

Explanation : The words from "Monet's Waterlillies" by Robert Hayden most appeals to the sense of sight in these words I come again to see.

Answer 6) Option A) a regular rhyme scheme

Option B) lines of equal length.

Option D) A set number of lines

Explanation : The characteristics of a fixed poetry should have these things mandatorily.

a regular rhyme scheme

lines of equal length

and a set number of lines.