Graded assignment unit test part 2 basic tools and transformations

English | Graded Assignment | Unit Test, Part 2: The Natural World Name: Date: Graded Assignment Unit Test, Part 2: The Natural World Read the directions carefully. Answer in the space provided. Total score: ____ of 55 points (Score for Question 1: ___ of 15 points) 1. What do poets do when they personify subjects? Choose a poem from the unit that uses personification, identify the subject that is personified in the poem, and describe how it is personified. Then explain how personification helps the poet to convey his ideas about the natural world. Write your answer in a paragraph of at least five sentences. Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 2: ___ of 20 points) 2. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “To a Butterfly” and Coleridge’s “Sonnet to the River Otter” and “Lines to a Beautiful Spring in a Village” all deal with memories. Choose two of these poems, and explain for each poem what the speaker suggests about how the natural world affects people’s memories. How does this function of the natural world fit with the Romantic view of nature? Write your answer in two paragraphs of at least four sentences each. Answer: Type your answer here. (Score for Question 3: ___ of 20 points) 3. The Romantics thought that people could turn to nature for comfort. They also identified another important role for nature in people’s lives—that of teacher. Now that you have read poems by five Romantic poets, consider what nature teaches in their poetry. Choose two poems, written by different authors. Identify the title and author of each poem. Then explain the lessons that each poet learned from nature as shown in each poem. Include why this lesson is important for people to learn. Write your answer in two paragraphs of at least four sentences each. Answer: Type your answer here. © 2015 K12 Inc. All rights reserved. Copying or distributing without K12’s written consent is prohibited. Page 1 of 1 ...