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POETRY: Which poem begins with this line? "They asked me ‘Are you sitting down?"
The Telephone Call
POETRY: Which poem contains this simile? "I said ‘I feel the top of my head / has floated off, out through the window, / revolving like a flying saucer.’"
The Telephone Call
POETRY: Which poems begins with the line "Cruising these residential Sunday"?
The City Planners
POETRY: What poem did Margaret Atwood write?
The City Planners
POETRY: Mention one relevant device present in the poem "The City Planners"
personification, semantic fields, alliteration
POETRY: Which poem contains the alliteration "dental dexterity"?
The Planners
POETRY: Which poems strongly criticize progress and modernity?
The Planners, The City Planners
POETRY: In "The Man with the Night Sweats", what is the speaker's ailment?
AIDS
POETRY: Which poems ends with this striking lines? "As if hands were enough / To hold an avalanche off."
"The Man with the Night Sweats"
POETRY: Which is the main theme in the poem "Rain"?
Death
POETRY: Mention a poem with an extended metaphor
"On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book", "Consumer's Report"
POETRY: What themes are present "On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book"?
life, death, legacy
POETRY: Which two poems deal with the grief of losing a loved one?
Funeral Blues, Long Distance II
POETRY: Mention one relevant device in "Long Distance II"
irony, imagery, metaphor
POETRY: Which poem deals with writer's block?
"Night Sweat"
POETRY: Mention a relevant device in "Funeral Blues"
Hyperbole, alliteration
