My Last Duchess, Robert Browning Quotes

Question 1

What quote uses a rhetorical question and enjambment to reveal the duchess could be easily flattered?

Answer 1

“She had
A heart—how shall I say?”

Question 2

What quote uses anaphora to showcase the Duchess’s kind gazes as flirtatious?

Answer 2

“She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.”

Question 3

What quote uses multiple hyphens to fasten the pace of the poem and exaggerate the Duke’s powerful lineage?

Answer 3

“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”

Question 4

What quote uses symbolism to represent the Duke as Neptune (god of the sea) taming a sea horse (symbol of his wife)?

Answer 4

“Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse,”