Reading Comprehension Questions

As you begin to read the poems in this section, it is important to understand who is speaking in the poem. (The speaker may not be the poet) Once you can identify the narrator, you should be able to get an idea of the narrator’s attitude toward the subject, and this is easily discovered by the author’s word choice. Through the images that the words make, you should be able to answer the questions correctly.
Most Traditional poetry follows a rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme. Note how these two lines rhyme and share the same rhyme and share the same rhythm or meter:
He who fights and runs away Lives to fight another day.
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1 4 The answers to this section begin page The following poem is by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Consider the title of this poem as a guide to meaning.
The Eagle
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
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Given the tone of the poem, and noting especially the last line, what is the eagle most likely doing in the poem?
a. dying of old age
b. hunting prey
c. learning joyfully to fly
d. keeping watch over a nest of young eagles
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To which of the following do the underlined words azure world most likely refer?
a. a forest
b. the sky
c. the cliff

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