Instructions: select the correct answer. which poetic technique does robert browning use in this excerpt from “my last duchess”? "of joy into the duchess' cheek: perhaps frà pandolf chanced to say "her mantle laps over my lady's wrist too much," or "paint must never hope to reproduce the faint half-flush that dies along her throat: " such stuff was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough for calling up that spot of joy. she had a heart—how shall i say? —too soon made glad," enjambment blank verse open form end-stopped lines nextreset

Sonnet 57 being your comprehension your servant is the a. speaker b. person addressed in the poem c. husband of the speakers beloved d. beloveds serving woman

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

Read this passage from an analysis essay: allegories do three things. first, they tell a story. allegories also have multiple meanings. finally, allegories offer a moral lesson. which best uses parallelism to revise this passage? a. telling a story, having multiple meanings, and moral lessons: these are the things allegories do. b. allegories, tell a story, multiple meanings, and a moral lesson. c. allegories tell a story, have multiple meanings, and offer a moral lesson. d. allegories tell a story, and have multiple meanings and offer a moral lesson.2b2t