Multiple choice

1. To paraphrase a poem means to

A. analyze the meter.

B. rewrite it in one's own words.

C. determine the rhyme scheme.

D. summarize its theme.

2. In the poem "God's Grandeur," the phrase "nor can foot feel, being shod" means

A. the earth is home for humans.

B. the poet can sense God from head to toe.

C. humans are out of touch with nature.

D. God cures all pain.

3. A theological argument offered by Donne in "Death Be Not Proud" may be summarized as

A. the human essence is immortal.

B. life is illusion.

C. death cannot be overcome.

D. chance and fate rule all.

4. Beyond tone, a poet's attitude toward his or her subject reveals to us a poem's

A. theme. 

B. structure.

C. subject.

D. diction.