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Quiz por Sarah Holmes, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Sarah Holmes
aproximadamente 9 anos atrás
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Questão 1
Questão
Which of the following two sources did Robert Frost use when writing the poem Out, Out?
Responda
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Lines from Macbeth
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A newspaper article about the death of a local farm boy
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Lines from Othello
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A newspaper article about an accident that a boy survived
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Lines from Hamlet
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A newspaper article about the dangers of children working on farms
Questão 2
Questão
Annotate the opening lines of the poem to show what language features Frost is using to establish the atmosphere of the poem.
Responda
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Personification makes saw seem dangerous
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Alliteration makes saw seem dangerous
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Onomatopoeia = noisy and busy
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Assonance = noisy and busy
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Alliteration connotes monotony
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Dissonance connotes monotony
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Sibilance creates a dream-like quality
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Plosives create a dream-like quality
Questão 3
Questão
Frost uses the following phrase to indicate that the poem is set during the late afternoon, (sunset) but what is the symbolic significance of this phrase in relation to the events of the poem?
'day was all but done'
Responda
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It can be read as a metaphor for the ending of the boy's life
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It can be read as a simile for the ending of the boy's life
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It juxtaposes the death of the boy
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It is used to personify death
Questão 4
Questão
Why does Frost write:
'Call it a day, I wish they might have said'
Responda
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If the boy had been excused from his work he would still be alive and could have spent a half-hour playing like other little boys.
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It was getting to dark to see what they were doing so it was dangerous to continue working with the saw
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Robert Frost blames the parents for the boys death because they made him work like a slave on the farm and he was exhausted
Questão 5
Questão
Look at these lines from the poem. Choose from the drop-down menus to annotate the lines to show how Frost develops the personification of the saw that he began in the opening lines.
Responda
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Suggests the saw has a mind of its own
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Suggests someone is controlling the saw
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Active verb suggests deliberate attack
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Passive verbs suggests accident
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Suggests consent
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Suggests avoidable
Questão 6
Questão
Which line conveys to the reader that the boy has died?
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The boy's first outcry was a rueful laugh
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He saw all was spoiled
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The doctor put him in the dark of ether
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the watcher at his pulse took fright
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Little-less-nothing!- and that ended it
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No more to build on there
Questão 7
Questão
The family go straight back to work at the end of the poem because they don't care about the boy.
Responda
- True
- False
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