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At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

 

'The earth has stopped breathing and sighed' illustrates__________

  • A. bathos
  • B. paradox
  • C. climax
  • D. personification
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3237

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.


The run-on lines convey the speaker's_______

 

  • A. lamentation
  • B. disappointment
  • C. defiance
  • D. indignation
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3238

Read the poem and answer questions

At dawn must I rise to till the rock
That our land has turned into
The land where on we'd gleefully harvested paddy
Planted and nurtured and tended on plots marshy
Our woes are bloody woes of accursed revenges
Of the land spirits aggrieved by paltry human respect
For the life of fellow man by his fellow
Kindred blood has counted for less than no value
Brother's wife has been wife to other brother's brother
Communal loot has emptied our country silos
The earth has stopped breathing and sighed
Soldered tears has the moon shed
The earth was scorched at noon-day night
And our land has turned to hoeing rock.

 

There is a predominance of words associated with________

  • A. governance
  • B. nature
  • C. nurture
  • D. celebration
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Which one of the following is most influential to the substance of Hallowell's "The Dinning Table"?

  • A. the structure of the poem
  • B. the atmosphere of the poem
  • C. the poetic style
  • D. the setting of the poem
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3240

'Nightfall! Nightfall!
You are my mortal enemy'


The figurative name for the manner in which Nightfall is directly addressed is______

  • A. allusion
  • B. an ode
  • C. metaphor
  • D. apostrophe
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