AICE Lit Poems Exam Questions with
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3 Speakers - Clod, Neutral, and Pebble
Purpose - Love is complicated and based on personal feelings
Subject: Opposite views of love, innocence vs. experienced
Tone - Multiple tones, Hopeful/innocent; Unbiased/Neutral; Harsh, Cynical - ANS-The
Clod and the Pebble
William Blake
(Love and Family)
- Personification (Clod and Pebble given human traits)
- Juxtaposition (Contrast/Comparison between both ideals)
- Rhyme Scheme (a,b,a,b; childlike and predictability)
- Iambic Tetrameter (Up and down rhythm, flow and melody)
Connection: She was a Phantom of Delight - Display both the positives and negatives of
love; each extreme - ANS-Clod and the Pebble LitTerms & Connection
Speaker - Heartbroken person healing; The Sky
Purpose: Nature can rejuvenate a person's soul and passions
Subject: The healing process of the speaker
Tone - Hopeless, melancholy, empowering/didactic, hopeful - ANS-Passion
Kathleen Raine
(Love and Family)
-Shift (Outlook / Perspective Change)
-Personification (Sky is human)
-Biblical Illusions (Emphasis on Nature)
Connection: Love (III) - Heavenly Love / Acceptance from others - ANS-Passion
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: Someone doubtful of their worth; God/Love
Purpose: True (Divine) Love reassures the soul
Subject: God's forgiveness; religious love
Tone: Reluctant, self-doubting, reassuring, gentle - ANS-Love (III)
George Herbert
(Love and Family)
-Iambic Pentameter (Emphasizes both contrasting views before joining together)
-Liturgical - catholic prompt (Emphasis on God)
-Rhyme Scheme (a,b,a,b,c,c; predictability - God is always reliable)
, -3 Stanzas - Biblical Illusions (Emphasis)
Connection: Passion - Guidance and reassurance from the 'heavens' - ANS-Love (III)
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: Responding to a lover, proving their love
Purpose: Going to great lengths can prove loyalty and love
Subject: The Speaker proving their love
Tone: First two lines are frustrated, switch to attached, supportive - ANS-Winter Song
Elizabeth Tollet
(Love and Family)
-Iambic Tetrameter (Up and down rhyme, her love is constant)
-Apostrophe (Speech to a voice unable to respond, emphasis)
-Personification (emphasis's harshness, will fight for their life together)
-Euphemism (Display of love)
Connection: The Spring - Display of different loves (passionate vs. heartbreak) through
contrast of the seasons - ANS-Winter Song LitTerms & Connection
-Pun: "Sorrow springs" juxtaposition
-Anaphora: Repeated sentences to display abundance of life
-Iambic Pentameter: Consistently happy and cheerful summer
-Alliteration: Soothing sounds mimic the season and 'heartbeat like' sound represents
'bud and bloom forth brings'
Connection: Wintersong - the contrast between fulfilled love and unrequited love with
regards to the contrasting seasons - ANS-Description of Spring LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: An unrequited lover
Purpose: Despite seasonal change, some hearts will never thaw.
Subject: Juxtaposition between the season's beauty and the woman's cold heart
Tone: Optimistic, awe/hopeful, bitter, frustrated - ANS-The Spring
Thomas Carew
(Birds, Beasts, & the Weather)
-Heroic Couplets: Represent consistent resistance to love (woman)
-Iambic Pentameter: Represent the consistency of seasons and in-affections from the
woman (0 lovers)
-Irony: Multiple couplets, but the speaker and women aren't together
-Personification: Serves to connect nature and people (earth & robe)
Connection: The Soote Season, unrequited love compared to spring - ANS-The Spring
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: A person living a miserable life
Purpose: Even when facing despair, there is still hope for a higher power
Subject: Hope and a higher power can cure the pain of a century's death
Tone: Sad, Dreary, miserable, partially hopeful - ANS-The Darkling Thrush
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3 Speakers - Clod, Neutral, and Pebble
Purpose - Love is complicated and based on personal feelings
Subject: Opposite views of love, innocence vs. experienced
Tone - Multiple tones, Hopeful/innocent; Unbiased/Neutral; Harsh, Cynical - ANS-The
Clod and the Pebble
William Blake
(Love and Family)
- Personification (Clod and Pebble given human traits)
- Juxtaposition (Contrast/Comparison between both ideals)
- Rhyme Scheme (a,b,a,b; childlike and predictability)
- Iambic Tetrameter (Up and down rhythm, flow and melody)
Connection: She was a Phantom of Delight - Display both the positives and negatives of
love; each extreme - ANS-Clod and the Pebble LitTerms & Connection
Speaker - Heartbroken person healing; The Sky
Purpose: Nature can rejuvenate a person's soul and passions
Subject: The healing process of the speaker
Tone - Hopeless, melancholy, empowering/didactic, hopeful - ANS-Passion
Kathleen Raine
(Love and Family)
-Shift (Outlook / Perspective Change)
-Personification (Sky is human)
-Biblical Illusions (Emphasis on Nature)
Connection: Love (III) - Heavenly Love / Acceptance from others - ANS-Passion
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: Someone doubtful of their worth; God/Love
Purpose: True (Divine) Love reassures the soul
Subject: God's forgiveness; religious love
Tone: Reluctant, self-doubting, reassuring, gentle - ANS-Love (III)
George Herbert
(Love and Family)
-Iambic Pentameter (Emphasizes both contrasting views before joining together)
-Liturgical - catholic prompt (Emphasis on God)
-Rhyme Scheme (a,b,a,b,c,c; predictability - God is always reliable)
, -3 Stanzas - Biblical Illusions (Emphasis)
Connection: Passion - Guidance and reassurance from the 'heavens' - ANS-Love (III)
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: Responding to a lover, proving their love
Purpose: Going to great lengths can prove loyalty and love
Subject: The Speaker proving their love
Tone: First two lines are frustrated, switch to attached, supportive - ANS-Winter Song
Elizabeth Tollet
(Love and Family)
-Iambic Tetrameter (Up and down rhyme, her love is constant)
-Apostrophe (Speech to a voice unable to respond, emphasis)
-Personification (emphasis's harshness, will fight for their life together)
-Euphemism (Display of love)
Connection: The Spring - Display of different loves (passionate vs. heartbreak) through
contrast of the seasons - ANS-Winter Song LitTerms & Connection
-Pun: "Sorrow springs" juxtaposition
-Anaphora: Repeated sentences to display abundance of life
-Iambic Pentameter: Consistently happy and cheerful summer
-Alliteration: Soothing sounds mimic the season and 'heartbeat like' sound represents
'bud and bloom forth brings'
Connection: Wintersong - the contrast between fulfilled love and unrequited love with
regards to the contrasting seasons - ANS-Description of Spring LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: An unrequited lover
Purpose: Despite seasonal change, some hearts will never thaw.
Subject: Juxtaposition between the season's beauty and the woman's cold heart
Tone: Optimistic, awe/hopeful, bitter, frustrated - ANS-The Spring
Thomas Carew
(Birds, Beasts, & the Weather)
-Heroic Couplets: Represent consistent resistance to love (woman)
-Iambic Pentameter: Represent the consistency of seasons and in-affections from the
woman (0 lovers)
-Irony: Multiple couplets, but the speaker and women aren't together
-Personification: Serves to connect nature and people (earth & robe)
Connection: The Soote Season, unrequited love compared to spring - ANS-The Spring
LitTerms & Connection
Speaker: A person living a miserable life
Purpose: Even when facing despair, there is still hope for a higher power
Subject: Hope and a higher power can cure the pain of a century's death
Tone: Sad, Dreary, miserable, partially hopeful - ANS-The Darkling Thrush
