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Yeats Technique-Takedown
Yeats Technique-Takedown
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1
"This man had kept a school And rode our wingèd horse;" NOT the technique?
Vituperation
Mythological allusion (pegasus)
Past perfect tense
Nostalgic pronouns
2
"Old clothes upon old sticks to scare a bird." NOT the technique?
Extended metaphor
Modernist usage of grammar
Understatement
Anaphora
3
"How many loved your moments of glad grace" NOT the technique?
Jeering tone
Assonance
Consonance
Sardonicism
4
"And paced upon the mountains overhead" NOT the technique?
Lulling iambic pentameter
Allusion to Zeus
Olympic imagery
Hyperbole
5
"Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming!" NOT the technique?
Repetition
Exclamation
Fragmented syntax
Past perfect tense
6
"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;" NOT?
Prophetic voicing and present tense
Enjambment and auxesis
Pastoral imagery and euphony
Mosaic allusions and superlatives
7
"And nodding by the fire Take down this book" NOT the technique?
High modality
Vituperation
Critical tone
Rebuke
8
"And now my heart is sore" NOT the technique?
Personal disclosure
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Juxtaposition of tenses
9
"Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart." NOT the technique?
Parataxis
Double entendre/sympathetic and unsympathetic tone
Extended metaphor
Pastoral diction
10
"My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor," NOT the technique?
Personal possessive pronouns
Idiosyncratic diction/Parochial allusions
Anaphora
Epiphora
11
"I write it out in a verse—MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse" NOT the technique?
Romantic use of traditional poetic structure
Obituary textual form
Intrusion of personal, narrative voice through pronouns
Cumulative listing via polysyndeton
12
"When you are old and grey and full of sleep" NOT the technique?
Ominous imagery
Asyndeton
Polysyndeton
Prolepsis
13
"I walk through the long schoolroom questioning; A kind old nun in a white hood replies;" NOT?
Modernist, mundane diction
Ghoulish imagery
Connotations of innocence
Symbolism of purity
14
"Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand." NOT the technique?
Anaphora
Allusion to the Grecian pantheon
Biblical allusion to the Revelation of St. John
Panicked tone
15
'O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?" NOT?
Rhetorical question and metaphor
Ghoulish imagery
Apostrophe and exclamation
Exergasia and polyptoton
16
"This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vainglorious lout." NOT the technique?
Derogative adjectives
Onomatopoeia
Vituperation
Dismissive pronouns
17
"But now they drift on the still water, Mysterious, beautiful;" NOT the technique?
Schesis onomaton
Cumulation of adjectives
Present perfect tense
Connotations of deities
18
"I have looked upon those brilliant creatures" NOT the technique?
Past perfect tense
Hellish adjective
Deific adjective
Present perfect tense
19
"What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but death;" NOT the technique?
Attempted euphemism
Hypophora
Pastoral diction
Epizeuxis
20
"Hearts with one purpose alone Through summer and winter seem Enchanted to a stone" NOT tech?
Soothing assonance
Parallel syntax
Occult diction/Mystical imagery
Merism
21
"In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man." NOT the technique?
Cynical tone
Self deprecation
Irony
Polysyndeton
22
"A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death." NOT the technique?
Calculative diction
Chiasmus
Parataxis
Juxtaposition
23
"And hid his face amid a crowd of stars." NOT the technique?
Connotations of deity
Plaintive use of cinquains
Plaintive use of quatrains
Idealistic personification
24
"World-famous golden-thighed Pythagoras Fingered upon a fiddle-stick or strings" NOT?
Demeaning fricatives
Philosophical allusion
Ironic, hyphenated accolades
Epizeuxis
25
"A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds;" NOT the technique?
Anaphora
Cacophany
Personification
Violent verb
26
"I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath," NOT technique?
Archaic syntax
Superlative
Consonance
Chiasmus
27
"I have met them at close of day Coming with vivid faces" NOT the technique?
Pastoral imagery
Present perfect tense
Mocking tone/elitism
Jester imagery
28
[Gonne was]Hollow of cheek as though it drank the wind And took a mess of shadows for its meat?
Homeoteleuton
Paradox
Ghoulish imagery
Parallel syntax
29
"But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you" NOT the technique?
Capitalisation
Religious allusion
Foil
Superlative
30
"Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled" NOT the technique?
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Polysyndeton
Regretful tone
31
"Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul," NOT the tech?
Indignant consonance
Sarcastic, desultory language
Sagacious proverbial expression
Corporeal diction
32
"How can those terrified vague fingers push The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?"NOT?
Synecdoche
Aposiopesis
Connotations of deity
Euphemism
33
"[Though they are different images] And yet they too break hearts" NOT the technique?
High modality
Low modality
Condescending tone
Development of pathos for worshippers
34
"Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;" NOT the tech?
Medieval metaphor
Present participles
Exclamation
Rhotic consonants
35
"The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry" NOT the technique?
Prolepsis
Varied metre
Autumnal imagery
Parallel syntax
36
"Those that I fight I do not hate, Those that I guard I do not love;" NOT the technique?
Juxtaposed parison
Iambic pentameter
Iambic tetrameter
Parallel syntax
37
"And I though never of Ledaean kind Had pretty plumage once—enough of that," NOT the technique?
Subversive Biblical allusion
Sarcastic consonance
Ironic Grecian allusion
Aposiopesis
38
"Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds."NOT?
Gyre imagery
Religious allusion
Vulture and carrion imagery
Prolepsis
39
"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"NOT?
Rhetorical question
Subversion of Biblical depiction of Jesus?
Nihilistic tone
Ambiguous pronouns
40
"The nineteenth autumn has come upon me" NOT the technique?
Violent verbs
Archaic syntax
Passive persona
Imagery of transience
41
"And bending down beside the glowing bars" NOT the technique?
Anaphora
Hellish imagery
Foreshadowing
Homeoteleuton
42
"A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun," NOT tech?
Biblical allusion
Irony and subversion
Sphynx imagery and vague pronouns
Ominous simile and grim adjectives
43
"Being certain that they and I But lived where motley is worn:" NOT the technique?
High modality
Jeering tone
Oxymoronic motif
Jester imagery
44
"I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above;" NOT the technique?
Foreshadowing
Prolepsis
Low modality
High modality
45
"A sudden blow:the great wings beating still/Above the staggering girl,her thighs caressed"NOT?
Synecdoche
Enjambment
Paradoxical verbs
Romantic adherence to poetic form
46
"Their hearts have not grown old;" NOT the technique?
Connotations of transcendence
Connotations of mortality
Connotations of nobility
Connotations of deity
47
"O chestnut tree, great rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?" Tech?
Organic imagery
Synecdoche and cumulative listing
Artistic allusion
Apostrophe and dignified adjectives
48
"I have passed with a nod of the head Or polite meaningless words," NOT the technique?
Phatic diction
Auxesis
Condescending tone
Sympathetic tone
49
"Did she put on his knowledge with his power/Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?"
Homeoteleuton
High modality
Rhetorical question
Epiphora
50
"Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans." NOT the technique?
Anacoluthon/anastrophe
Comparative language
Archaic syntax
Present participle
51
"And loved your beauty with love false or true" NOT the technique?
Romantic tone
Dichotomy
Prosaic language/simple diction
Chiasmus
52
"Minute by minute they live: The stone's in the midst of all." NOT the technique?
Modernist use of punctuation (colon)
Euphemism
Caesura
Superlative juxtaposition
53
"And thereupon my heart is driven wild: She stands before me as a living child." NOT the tech?
Passionate verbs
Present tense
Prolepsis
Dramatic pause
54
O Presences That passion, piety or affection knows O self-born mockers of man's enterprise NOT?
Apostrophe
Personification
Paradox
Polysyndeton
55
"Nor beauty born out of its own despair," NOT the technique?
Oxymoron
Romantic language
Paradox
Apostrophe
56
"Did she but see that shape [her son] With sixty or more winters on its head A compensation"
Personification
Rhetorical question
Inter-poetic allusion
Exclamation
57
"Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky;" NOT the technique:
Sibilance
Polysyndeton
Grim foreshadowing
Lexical field of transience
58
"Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air," NOT the technique?
Anaphora
Consonance
Hyperbole
Emphatic modifiers
59
"He, too, has resigned his part In the casual comedy;" NOT the technique?
Mocking consonance
Present perfect tense
Sympathetic tone
Synecdoche
60
"All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born." NOT the technique?
Gyre imagery
Oxymoronic motif
Superlative
Chiasmus/parallel syntax
61
"And that must sleep, shriek, struggle to escape" NOT the technique?
Bestial imagery
Sibilance
Cumulative listing
Schesis onomaton
62
"A sudden blow: the great wings beating still" NOT the technique?
Euphemism and mortal imagery
Modernist use of punctuation and caesura
In media res and fragmented syntax
Synecdoche and deified adjective
63
"All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings" NOT the technique?
Traumatic adverb
Cacophany
Synecdoche
Gyre imagery
64
"Plato thought nature but a spume that plays Upon a ghostly paradigm of things;" NOT the tech?
Dismissive tone
Philosophical allusion
Admiring tone
Ambiguous metaphors
65
"Was it needless death after all?For England may keep faith For all that is done and said" NOT?
Personification
Low modality
High modality
Rhetorical question
66
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," NOT tech?
Synonymous phrasing/exergasia and hyperbolic language
Nihilistic tone and polysyndeton
Jarring parataxis and Modernist punctuation
Oxymoron and bestial imagery
67
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;" NOT the technique?
Romantic adherence to poetic grammatical features
Euphemism
Gyre imagery
Modernist use of punctuation
68
"Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds," NOT the technique?
Euphemism
Parataxis
Sardonicism
Anaphora
69
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." NOT tech?
Aposiopesis
Juxtaposition
Prolepsis
Superlative language
70
"O when may it suffice? That is Heaven's part, our part To murmur name upon name,"
Rhetorical question and apostrophe
Theological allusion and resigned tone
Synecdoche and mystical imagery
Onomatopoeia and morose repetition
71
"We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead;" NOT the technique?
Polyptoton and contrasting lexical field
Idealistic diction and Romantic euphemisms
Modernist realism and miserable tone
Brutal consonance and jarring punctuation
72
"From cloud to tumbling cloud, Minute by minute they change;" NOT the technique?
Hyperbole
Epiphora
Connotations of transience
Pastoral imagery
73
"A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower" NOT?
Asyndeton
Allusions to Greek mythology
Causal language
Low modality
74
"The children learn to cipher and to sing, To study reading-books and history," NOT the tech?
Sympathetic tone
Simple, everyday diction
Polysyndeton
Patronising tone
75
"[A] youthful mother, a shape upon her lap Honey of generation had betrayed,"NOT the technique?
Metaphor
Demeaning pronoun
Dramatic language
Aposiopesis
76
"Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, [They] Are changed, changed utterly" NOT tech?
Superlative language
Canonisation of martyrs
Condescending tone
Chiasmus/inverted syntax
77
"All suddenly mount...upon their clamorous wings." NOT the technique?
Synecdoche
Sibilance
Cacophany
Equestrian imagery
78
"Better to smile on all that smile, and show There is a comfortable kind of old scarecrow."NOT?
Epizeuxis
Irony
Oxymoron
Metaphor
79
"And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?" NOT the technique?
Morbid lexical field
Attempted euphemism
Parison
Synecdoche
80
"Her present image floats into the mind—Did Quattrocento finger fashion it?" NOT the technique?
Appeal to Romantic aestheticism
Ghostly imagery
Allusion to Mantegna
Condescending tone