POESIA 1

Henry Wardsworh Longfellow´s fifth stanza of A Pslam of Life scans trochaic tetrameters. Yes, perfect trochaic tetrameters. Not really. Line 18 is a trimeter. Yes, with the exception of line 20 which is a catalectic line. Not exactiy. Line 18 is a catalectic line. Yes with the exception of line 17 which includes a pyrrhic substitution. Yes, with the exception that line 18 includes an iambic substitution. Yes, with the exception of line 20 which includes a pyrrhic substitution. Not exactly, even lines are catalectic.

Who is the speaker of “A Psalm of Life"?. A shipwerecked. A psalmist. Longfellow. The poet as a young man. A young man. A wanderer. A soldier. The poet himself.

Which is the most prominent symbol in “A Psalm of Life"?. The drum. The funeral. The soul. The sand. There are no symbols in the poem. The footsteps. The battle. The shipwerck.

Which is the most relevant aspect of the syntax in “A Psalm of Life”?. The use of anastrophe. The use of parataxis. The use of imperative. The use of rhetorical questions. The use of hypotaxis. The use of enjambment. The use of present simple. The use of exclamation and interrogation marks.

What figure of speech is present in line 5 in "A Psalm of Life"?. Isocolon. Epitheton. Anadiplosis. Prosopopeia. Epizeuxis. Parallelism. Polyptoton. Epanalepsis.

Which figure of speech is in line 28 of "A Psalm of Life"?. Metaphor. Catachresis. Prosopopeia. Metonymy. Anacoluthon. Oxymoron. Antanaclasis. Synecdoche.

When was “A Psalm of Life" first published?. 1835. 1845. 1860. 1838. 1875. 1837. 1841. 1850.

What type of imagery is the most prominent in “A Psalm of Life"?. Nature imagery. Kinesthetic imagery. Visual imagery. Olfactory imagery. Auditory imagery. Religious imagery. Tactile imagery. Gustatory imagery.

Which figure of speech is present in line 15 in "A Psalm of Life"?. Comparison. Porposopoeia. Simile. Oxymoron. Metaphor. Metonymy. Synecdoche. Reification.

Which figure of speech does line 17 of “A Psalm of Life" contain?. Synecdoche. Prosopopeia. Metaphor. Metonymy. Irony. Simile. Catachresis. Anacoluthon.

Which of the following is true about the structure of “A Psalm of Life”?. It is a rhymed verse with irregular stanzas. It has a heroic structure. It has an elegiac structure. It has a parallel structure —4 stanzas + 4 stanzas. It is a narrative poem. It has an ode structure. It is just a lyrical poem. It is a dramatic monolog.

Which line in “A Psalm of Life" is a clear allusion to one of the Spanish Calderon de la Barca's plays?. Line 26. Line 5. Line 2. Line 22. Line 36. Line 13. Line 18. Line 28.

What is the central theme of “A Psalm of Life"?. The importance of prayer. The value of learning. The idea of the afterlife. The power of love. The greatness of nature. The inevitabiity of death. The fleeting nature of time. The significance of life and living with purpose.

What kind of meter is primarily used A Psalm of Life"?. Trochaic. Iambic tetrameter. Anapestic. Iambic. Tetrameter. Pentameter. Dactylic. Blank Verse.

What tone does the speaker seem to adopt in “A Psalm of Life"?. Despondent. Optimistic. Confused. Ironic. Mourful. Pessimistic. Detached. Sarcastic.

Which type of stanza is used in “A Psalm of Life"?. Envelope quatrain. Paired-couplets quatrain. Cross-rhymed quatrain. Heroic quatrain. Common meter. Ballad stanza. Monorhyme Quatrain. Long meter.

What is the rhyme pattern of “A Psalm of Life"?. a b a b. a b c b. A B A B. a b - b. a a b a. a a b b. a b c a. A B B A.

What is the effect of the rhythm in “A Psalm of Life"?. It imitates a heartbeat. it imitates a walker. It imitates the steps of the soldiers. it recalls the rhythm of our breathing. it reminds of the walk of liFe. it remids of steps. it imitates a drummer. It reminds of following footsteps.

Line 28 in "A Psalm of Life" includes irony. Verdadero. Falso.

Longfellow intended "A Psalm of Life" as the first of a series of Poems dealing with life and death. Verdadero. Falso.

Lines 15 and 16 in "A Psalm of Life" create an image. Yes, an auditory image. Not exactly, there are words which do not include any visual imagery. The terms included in those lines are contradictory. There is no image in these lines. Yes, a visual mage. Not really, to be an image there should be more words associated with sight. Yes, an image of movement. Not really, "marches" and "beating" refer to movement.

The type of rhyme in stanza 4 of Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" is... Pararhyme. end rhyme. perfect weak. Eye rhyme. triple rhyme. imperfect consonance rhyme. Perfect strong. imperfect assonance rhyme.

The subtitle of "A Psalm of Life" (What The Heart Of The Young Man Said to the Psalmist) means that…. Longfellow addresses a young man with the poem. The readers are to be identified with the young man. The young man is talking to an unknown psalmist. The speaker is a young man. The pslamist is listening to the young man saying the poem. The speaker of the poem is unknown. Longfellow addresses a psalmist with the poem. The content of the poem is psalm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" includes all except. use of ellipsis. use of ellision. Line alterations. meter alterations. differente tones. it it nos a psalm. figurative language.

Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life" was... initially twenty stanzas long, eventually outlined by Longfellow himself. A very unpopular poem at first. Understood as a symbol for the afterlife. Intially composed as a real Biblical psalm. Conceived as a seize-the day poem.