ENGLISH 1A03 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simile, Cyrus Thomas

• School: McMaster University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGLISH 1A03
• Professor: Nibaldo Galleguillos

Document Summary

Below is a list of 16 questions for you to use in studying for the exam. I will choose 6 from these 16 to appear on the exam itself. Several questions below invite you to offer detailed readings of one or more poems. Here are the texts of several poems that you may use to sharpen your discussion. The texts will be reproduced on the exam copy as well. Mind in its purest play is like some bat. Not to conclude against a wall of stone. It has no need to falter or explore; And so may weave and flitter, dip and soar. My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips" red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see i in her cheeks;