LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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“She is a woman of beauty and wonder.”
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“Death, that which feels nothing.”
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“Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee.”
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“I wandered lonely as a cloud.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct solution is ‘Apostrophe’. Apostrophe is a figure of speech sometimes represented by an exclamation. Here, ‘Milton! ‘ shows an exclamation so the figure of speech is an apostrophe.
Detailed explanation-2: -In short, then, Wordsworth exclaims ‘Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour’ because John Milton got the country through the difficult period of the English Civil War and showed that freedom, liberty, and opposition to tyranny are noble values worth defending.
Detailed explanation-3: -Apostrophe. The figure of speech Apostrophe is used to address a person or thing, either absent or dead on the scene. In this poem, the speaker or the poet employs it at the beginning of the poem to call out “Milton!” It addresses John Milton, the 17th-century poet, who is dead by the time the poem is written.
Detailed explanation-4: -"London, 1802” is a Petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme scheme of abba abba cdd ece. The poem is written in the second person and addresses the late poet John Milton, who lived from 1608–1674 and is most famous for having written Paradise Lost.