Alienation Module Exam

"The Stranger" demonstrates how a person can transcend or overcome the prejudices with which he was raised.

Which passage from "Alone" comes closest to stating the poem's theme? Answer choices: From the torrent, or the fountain--; (When the rest of Heaven was blue); From the same source I have not taken / My sorrow; in my childhood--in the dawn

When the speaker in "The Stranger" says "the men of my own stock" in stanza two, he is speaking of people who belong to his same racial or ethnic group.

In the poem "The Stranger," the speaker tries to explain and justify his reasons for avoiding anyone outside his group of acquaintances.

The line "They're probably drinkin' coffee and smoking big cigars" includes both personification and alliteration.

The poem "The Stranger" describes what can happen with two people who just met look for common ground.

The speaker in Johnny Cash's song "Folsom Prison Blues" thinks that he was wrongfully imprisoned and dreams of escaping.

The lines "But those people keep a movin' / And that's what tortures me" expresses a prison inmate's despair over being held back while the rest of the world moves ahead.

Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Alone" depicts an old man reflecting on the joys of solitude.

The speaker in the poem "Alone" feels his difference separates him from everyone else.

Which of these phrases from the poem "Alone" is an example of an image that contributes to the poem's tone of despair and alienation? Answer choices: childhood's hour; common spring; my sorrow; red cliff

The speaker in the poem "The Stranger" is okay with the flaws of those who are just like him because he knows what those flaws are and shares some of them.

The speaker in the song "Folsom Prison Blues" is Johnny Cash himself, looking back on his time in prison.

Johnny Cash reportedly wore black because he never stopped mourning his mother's death.