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Thomas GrayElegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1751A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Literary Device Questions
1. What literary device is exemplified by the speaker’s vivid description of the countryside sights and sounds he observes from his vantage point?
2. What literary device can be evidenced in “But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page / Rich with the spoils of time did ne’er unroll” (Lines 49-50)?
A) allusion
B) alliteration
C) personification
D) hyperbole
3. What is the rhyme scheme of each stanza?
A) ABBA
B) ABAB
C) ABBC
D) ABCA
4. The countryside setting of Gray’s poem references an influential English elegy by John Milton called “Lycidas.” What is the term for this kind of reference to another literary work?
A) allusion
B) inversion
C) caesura
D) anecdote
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