Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Quizzes

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Quiz

1 Which of the following terms best describes the phrase "a cry of pulleys"?
proper noun

abstract noun

personification

common noun
2 Which of the following literary terms best describes the second line of the poem?
assonance

metonymy

astonishment

alliteration
3 Angels are best understood as heavenly ____
personifiers

messengers

light-carriers

wardens
4 Smocks are worn for the following purposes except
as armor

as simple garments

as protection while making art

as dresses
5 "Impersonal breathing" in the second stanza indicates that
the angels are somewhat separated from human experience

the angels are angry

the angels have been exercising

the angels are confused
6 "Terrible" in the third stanza means, in context:
difficult

masterful

horrendous

awesome, as in awe-inspiring
7 The angels' behavior in the second and third stanzas is
always horrifying

shifting

constant

always predictable
8 "The world's hunks and colors" in the last stanza is
a new perception

an exaggeration

an abstraction

a delayed response
9 The "lovers" in the final stanza could refer to all except
people wearing clean clothes

people infused with warm feelings

the nuns

romantic partners
10 The poem is written in
trochaic trimeter

anarchic verse

free verse, with some metrical patterning

iambic pentameter
11 Richard Wilbur was a translator from
Dutch

Irish

French

Swedish
12 Wilbur's poetry is understood to be
formally lazy

generally formalist

formalist, without exception

metrically constant
13 The poem is written in _______ stanzas.
Italian

regular

American

irregular
14 The poem's religious feeling can best be described as:
confused

spiritual and non-specific

totally secular

exclusively Catholic
15 The "thieves" referred to in the final stanza are
imagined as potential recipients of human charity

American

fabricated

literal and historically specific

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