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Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

The theme of the poem is presented essentially through ________

  • A. assonance
  • B. contrast.
  • C. paradox
  • D. repetition
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Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

 

The two words that give hint of the poet's unhappiness are?

  • A. light and night
  • B. light and shone
  • C. night and dimm'd
  • D. Shone and dimm'd
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Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

 

The poet refers to memory as being 'fond' and 'sad' because it brings?

  • A. cheers and smiles
  • B. love and joy
  • C. sorrow and pity
  • D. smiles and tears
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29

Read the poem and answer Questions 26 to 30.

Oft in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me

Fond memory brings the light

of other days around me:

The smiles, the tears

of boyhood years.

The words of love then spoken;

The eyes that shone

How dimm'd and.gone

The cheerful hearts now broken!

Thus in the stilly night

Ere slumber's chain has bound me.

 

The meaning of the expression, Ere slumber's chain has bound me is

  • A. after i wake up
  • B. before i sleep
  • C. before i dream
  • D. since i cannot sleep
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Read the extract and answer Questions 31 to 35.

Zounds, sir, y' are robbed! For shame, put on your gown!

Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul.

Even now, very now, an old black ram 

Is tupping your white eww. Arise. arise!

Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,

Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you

Arise i say!

                   (Act 1, scene one,lines 83 - 89) 

The speaker is _________

  • A. Cassio
  • B. Iago
  • C. Lodovico
  • D. Roderigo
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