Question

ENGLISH 4!!
What sound devices contribute to the poet's theme in lines like these?

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree

Answer 1

A. Blurring words create a vague, abstract feeling.

B. Linking words create a flowing, dreamlike effect.

D. Separating words create a rigid, marchlike rhythm.

Answer 2

@ganeshie8 do you know?

Answer 3

Hm. Thi one is tough, but let me try to put the answer choices in plain English and see if that helps.

What sound devices contribute to the poet's theme in lines like these? In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure dome decree

a. Blurring words, creating an uncertain (vague) feeling and a feeling existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
b. Joining words, creating a flowing, dreamlike effect
d. Separating words, creating an unadaptable, rhythmic rhythm.

Answer 4

i honestly dont know !

Answer 5

Unfortunately, I do not want to give you a straight answer because I am in English I, and you are in English IV. But, as a ninth grader, I would say B since the words have the same beginning in the lines.

Answer 6

But it really doesn't feel "dream-like"...

Answer 7

This is because they don't rhyme or at least sound right.

Answer 8

well you should be proud of yourself helping someone thats doing 12th grade stuff !!!

Answer 9

& Well ill just try B (:

Answer 10

Aw, thanks. Well, I'm not sure either and I don't know anyone that is good with English, so. Oh well.

Answer 11

i honestly dont know anyone good with english neither