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Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.The nakedness of woman is the work of God.Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.The fox condemns the trap, not himself.Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.What is now proved was once only imagin’d.The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.One thought fills immensity.

A comparison of two things, by stating one thing is another.

Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: “No time hath she to sport and play:A charmed web she weaves alway.A curse is on her, if she stayHer weaving, either night or day,To look down to Camelot.She knows not what the curse may be;Therefore she weaveth steadily”

A vivid and sensory-evoking description, creating a mental picture.

Name the title of the work that the following quote comes from: For I have known them all already, known them all:Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;I know the voices dying with a dying fallBeneath the music from a farther room.So how should I presume? And I have known the eyes already, known them all—The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?And how should I presume?

A narrative structure in which the story is within another story.

A narrative poem or song that focuses on a specific event, and typically uses simple language, repeated refrains, and a melodic structure.

The central or underlying message of a piece of literature; what it is really means.

Choose a letter. (“X” is the choice that is “correct”- you can try something else to see if your answer is marked wrong).

Which group was NOT a new target of the KKK as they expanded their discriminatory efforts in the 1920’s?