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"'The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"


Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

1. 
“Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold...”

These lines from Raleigh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” contain both
a.
paradox and allusion.
b.
alliteration and simile.
c.
simile and personification.
d.
alliteration and personification.
 

2. 
Sir Walter Raleigh’s Nymph suggests that she might be the shepherd’s love if
a.
youth could last.
b.
birds could sing madrigals.
c.
she were to receive beds of roses.
d.
the shepherd were more passionate.
 

3. 
“If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.”

This first stanza of “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is written in
a.
terza rima.
b.
blank verse.
c.
heroic couplets.
d.
iambic tetrameter.
 

4. 
The Nymph in “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” is
a.
unrealistic.
b.
extremely angry with the shepherd.
c.
worldy.
d.
easily convinced by the shepherd.
 



 
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