1 Which of the following terms best describes the phrase "a cry of pulleys"? common noun proper noun abstract noun personification 2 Which of the following literary terms best describes the second line of the poem? alliteration metonymy astonishment assonance 3 Angels are best understood as heavenly ____ wardens personifiers messengers light-carriers 4 Smocks are worn for the following purposes except as simple garments as dresses as protection while making art as armor 5 "Impersonal breathing" in the second stanza indicates that the angels have been exercising the angels are confused the angels are somewhat separated from human experience the angels are angry 6 "Terrible" in the third stanza means, in context: difficult horrendous awesome, as in awe-inspiring masterful 7 The angels' behavior in the second and third stanzas is constant shifting always horrifying always predictable 8 "The world's hunks and colors" in the last stanza is an abstraction a new perception a delayed response an exaggeration 9 The "lovers" in the final stanza could refer to all except people wearing clean clothes the nuns people infused with warm feelings romantic partners 10 The poem is written in anarchic verse trochaic trimeter iambic pentameter free verse, with some metrical patterning 11 Richard Wilbur was a translator from Swedish French Irish Dutch 12 Wilbur's poetry is understood to be metrically constant formally lazy generally formalist formalist, without exception 13 The poem is written in _______ stanzas. irregular American Italian regular 14 The poem's religious feeling can best be described as: confused totally secular exclusively Catholic spiritual and non-specific 15 The "thieves" referred to in the final stanza are fabricated imagined as potential recipients of human charity literal and historically specific American
