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"?
personification

common noun

abstract noun

proper noun
2 Which of the following literary terms best describes the second line of the poem?
metonymy

alliteration

assonance

astonishment
3 Angels are best understood as heavenly ____
personifiers

wardens

messengers

light-carriers
4 Smocks are worn for the following purposes except
as armor

as protection while making art

as simple garments

as dresses
5 "Impersonal breathing" in the second stanza indicates that
the angels are confused

the angels are somewhat separated from human experience

the angels are angry

the angels have been exercising
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
shifting

always predictable

constant

always horrifying
8 "The world's hunks and colors" in the last stanza is
a delayed response

an exaggeration

a new perception

an abstraction
9 The "lovers" in the final stanza could refer to all except
the nuns

people infused with warm feelings

romantic partners

people wearing clean clothes
10 The poem is written in
anarchic verse

trochaic trimeter

iambic pentameter

free verse, with some metrical patterning
11 Richard Wilbur was a translator from
French

Dutch

Irish

Swedish
12 Wilbur's poetry is understood to be
metrically constant

formalist, without exception

generally formalist

formally lazy
13 The poem is written in _______ stanzas.
Italian

irregular

American

regular
14 The poem's religious feeling can best be described as:
exclusively Catholic

confused

spiritual and non-specific

totally secular
15 The "thieves" referred to in the final stanza are
fabricated

imagined as potential recipients of human charity

American

literal and historically specific

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