Mod B

Question 1

Preludes 1 1

Answer 1

The winter evening settles down

Iambic tetrameter

Question 2

Preludes 1 2

Answer 2

Smells of steaks in passageways

Sibilance
Olfactory image

Question 3

Preludes 1 3

Answer 3

Six o’clock

Short line

Question 4

Preludes 1 4

Answer 4

Gusty showers … grimy scraps

Alliteration

Question 5

Preludes 1 5

Answer 5

Conscience of a blackened street

Personification

Sordid city

Question 6

Preludes 2 1

Answer 6

Muddy feet … hands that are raising dingy shades

Synecdoche

Question 7

Preludes 2 2

Answer 7

Thousand sordid images

Question 8

Preludes 2 3

Answer 8

Clasped the yellow soles of feet with both soiled hands

Synecdoche

Question 9

Preludes 2 4

Answer 9

The notion of some infinitely gentle infinitely suffering thing

Repetition

Eternity

False epiphany

Question 10

Preludes 2 5

Answer 10

Wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh

Synecdoche

Question 11

Rhapsody 1 1

Answer 11

Twelve o’clock … half past one

Metronomic motif of time

Question 12

Rhapsody 1 2

Answer 12

Held in lunar synthesis … incantations dissolve the floors of memory

Metaphor

Question 13

Rhapsody 1 3

Answer 13

Doors … rooms … corridors

Reduced reflections of the city

Question 14

Rhapsody 1 4

Answer 14

The street lamp muttered, the street lamp said

Anaphora

Question 15

Rhapsody 1 5

Answer 15

Dead geraniums … smallpox cracks

Images

Laforgue

Question 16

Rhapsody 2 1

Answer 16

Border of her dress
Corner of her eye

Synecdoche

Question 17

Rhapsody 2 2

Answer 17

Twists like a crooked pin … a broken spring

Fractured images
Simile

Question 18

Rhapsody 2 3

Answer 18

The moon has lost her memory

Personification

Question 19

Rhapsody 2 4

Answer 19

Smells of chestnuts in the streets
Females smells in shuttered rooms

Fragmented olfactory images

Transformation of sordid images

Question 20

Rhapsody 2 5

Answer 20

The last twist of the knife

Metaphor

Question 21

Prufrock 1 1

Answer 21

The evening is spread out against the sky

Romantic image

Question 22

Prufrock 1 2

Answer 22

Like a patient etherised upon a table

Clinical simile

Subverts earlier romantic

Question 23

Prufrock 1 3

Answer 23

Do I dare disturb the universe?
Do I dare to eat a peach?

Profound vs trivial

Antithetical

Question 24

Prufrock 1 4

Answer 24

I grow old … I grow old

Repetition

Lyrical and profound

Question 25

Prufrock 1 5

Answer 25

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled Trivial Subverts earlier profundity Antithetical

Question 26

Prufrock 2 1

Answer 26

Butt-ends Measured ... in coffee spoons Disposable consumer metaphors

Question 27

Prufrock 2 2

Answer 27

I am not Prince Hamlet Self awareness Subverted literary allusion

Question 28

Prufrock 2 3

Answer 28

Head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter John the Baptist Subverted biblical allusion

Question 29

Prufrock 2 4

Answer 29

Voices dying with a dying fall Synecdoche

Question 30

Prufrock 2 5

Answer 30

Till human voices wake us, and we drown Metaphor

Question 31

Hollow men 1 1

Answer 31

We are the hollow men we are the stuffed men Allusion to Heart of Darkness and Guy Fawkes

Question 32

Hollow men 1 2

Answer 32

Shape without form, shade without colour Metaphor Dante’s Ignavi

Question 33

Hollow men 1 3

Answer 33

Broken column Stone images Fragmented symbols Idolatrous worship

Question 34

Hollow men 1 4

Answer 34

Fading star Imagery Dante’s Star = God

Question 35

Hollow men 1 5

Answer 35

Prayers to broken stone Symbolism

Question 36

Hollow men 2 1

Answer 36

Here we go round the prickly pear Subversion of traditional nursery rhyme Flowers in desert

Question 37

Hollow men 2 2

Answer 37

This is the dead land, this is the cactus land Anaphora Symbolism, dry

Question 38

Hollow men 2 3

Answer 38

Between the idea and the reality... Falls the Shadow Julius Caesar Heart of Darkness

Question 39

Hollow men 2 4

Answer 39

For Thine is the Kingdom Fragment of Lord’s Prayer

Question 40

Hollow men 2 5

Answer 40

For Thine is, life is, for Thine is the Fragments as it can’t be finished Inertia as prayer dissolves