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The expression million voices is used as _________

  • A. conceit
  • B. euphemism
  • C. hyperbole
  • D. metonymy
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A ship in the last line symbolises _________

  • A. despair.
  • B. hope
  • C. pirates
  • D. sailors
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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 is about the poet's _________

  • A. broken love affairs.
  • B. fee the stilly night.
  • C. sleepless night.
  • D. yearning for happier times gone
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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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