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Read the poem and answer the question

I'm going soldering:
Mad the rhythm runs
With drumming and with trumpeting
And glory of the guns.

I've come home again:
I know that blood is red;
I know how sodden falls the rain
Where flesh lies dead.

26

''Mad the rhythm runs'' is an example of

  • A. pathos
  • B. oxymoron
  • C. bathos
  • D. inversion
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27

The rhyme scheme in the first stanza is

  • A. aabb
  • B. abab
  • C. abbaa
  • D. aabc
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28

The dominant sound device in the second stanza is

  • A. alliteration
  • B. assonance
  • C. onomatopeia
  • D. repetition
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29

The two contrasting moods in the poem is/ are

  • A. sadness and hope
  • B. bravery and cowardice
  • C. excitement and disappointment
  • D. calmness and anxiety
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Tempest

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Thou liest, most ignorant monster! I am in case to justle a constable. Why, thou deboshed fish, thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I today. Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
(act 111, scene two lines 23-27)

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The speaker is

  • A. Stephano
  • B. Caliban
  • C. Trinculo
  • D. Adrian
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