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Test:Common Core: 8th Grade English Language Arts
Adapted from “The Fog” by Carl Sandberg inModern American Poetry(1919; ed. Untermeyer)
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Adapted from “The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851)
He crasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
| 1. | Which of the following describes a major difference between how these two short descriptive poems each distinguish their two stanzas? |
“The Fog” uses personification in its first stanza, whereas “The Eagle” uses personification in its second stanza.
“The Fog” discusses an animal in both of its stanzas; “The Eagle” discusses a person in its first stanza and an animal in its second stanza.
The first stanza of “The Fog” establishes a metaphor crucial to the poem, and the second stanza elaborates on it. “The Eagle” uses a simile in its second stanza that is not as crucial to the poem.
“The Fog” uses a simile in its first stanza, and elaborates on it in the second stanza. “The Eagle” uses vivid imagery throughout, including a metaphor in its second stanza.
“The Fog” discusses weather in the first stanza but switches to discussing an animal in the second; “The Eagle” discusses an animal in both of its stanzas.
