Remedial Test for Grade XI Language

Direction :    Read these poems and answer the questions.

(Leave your answers in “comments” along with your NAME. Remember, the deadline is 29 Dec 2009 at 2 p.m).

POEM 1

Uphill
by Christina Rossetti

Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day’s journey take the whole long  day?
From morn to night, my friend.

But is there for the night a resting-place?
A roof for when the slow dark hours begin.
May not the darkness hide it from my face?
You cannot miss that inn.

Shall I meet other wayfarers at night?
Those who have gone before.
Then must I knock, or call when just in sight?
They will not keep you standing at that door.

Shall I find comfort, travel-sore and weak?
Of labour you shall find the sum.
Will there be beds for me and all who seek?
Yea, beds for all who come.

01. What figure of speech does Christina mostly use in the poem?

02. What does “the very end” connotate?

03. What does the word “morn” imply?

04. What place does “inn” refer to?

05. What does “journey” suggest?

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POEM 2

They rise like sudden fiery flowers

That burst upon the night,

Then fall to earth in burning showers

Of crimson, blue, and white.

Like buds too wonderful to name,

Each miracle unfolds,

And catherine-wheels begin to flame

Like whirling marigolds.

Rockets and Roman candles make

An orchard of the sky,

Whence magic trees their petals shake

Upon each gazing eye.

-by James Reevees

06.  What might the poem be about?

07. “They rise like sudden fiery flowers”. The figure of speech of this line is …………..

08. What is the rhyme of the poem?

09. What is James Reevees?

10. State one line of the poem that uses the figure of speech of metaphor.

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