Question12 pts.

How would you classify the title of the poemRío Grande de Loíza?
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literal

metaphorical

symbolic

image

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Question22 pts.
In this second stanza what literary figure is present?

Curl up in my lips and let me drink you,

to feel you mine for a brief moment,
and hide you from the world, and in yourself hide you,
and hear voices of wonder, in the mouth of the wind.
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Asyndeton

Simile

Polysyndeton

Anaphora

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Question32 pts.
In this second stanza, in the last verse, the phrase: "and hear
voices of wonder" shows what literary figure?
 Curl up on my lips and let me drink you,
to feel you mine for a brief moment,
and hide you from the world, and in yourself hide,
and hear voices of wonder, in the mouth of the wind.
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Hyperbole

Asyndeton

Prosopopoeia

Sensory image

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Question42 pts.
In the last line of this second stanza he says: "en la boca del
viento" (in the mouth of the wind).
This image is known as prosopopoeia, because it attributes...

Curl up on my lips and let me drink you,

to feel you mine for a brief moment,
and hide you from the world, and in yourself hide,
and hear voices of wonder, in the mouth of the wind.
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human qualities in the wind

sound in the wind

wind characteristics

exaggerated features in the wind

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Question52 pts.
RHYME: In the third stanza below, what is therhyme worked into
the lines?

Cling for a moment to the back of the earth,

and search for the intimate secret of my longings;
confuse me in the flight of my fantasy bird,
and leave me a water rose in my reveries.
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ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCC

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Question62 pts.
What literary image did the author use in the line "search for the
intimate secret of my longings"?

Cling for a moment to the back of the earth,

and search for the intimate secret of my longings;
confuse me in the flight of my fantasy bird,
and leave me a water rose in my reveries.
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pleonasm

anaphora

polysyndeton

hyperbole

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Question72 pts.
This poem is divided into four beats, which beat does thesecond
line represent?
Rio Grande de Loíza!... My spring, my river,
since the maternal petal rose to the world;
with you came down from the rough slopes
to look for new furrows, my pale longings;
and my childhood was all a poem in the river,
of my first dreams and a river in the poem.
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Childhood

Birth

Adolescence

Adulthood

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Question82 pts.
In the same fourth stanza, what tense does thesixth line
represent?
Great River of Loíza!...My spring, my river,
since the maternal petal rose to the world;
with you, my pale longings came down from the rough slopes to
find new furrows; and my childhood was all a poem in the river,
and a river in the poem of my childhood.
to look for new furrows, my pale longings;
and my childhood was all a poem in the river,
anda river in the poem of my first dreams.
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childhood

birth

adolescence
adulthood

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Question92 pts.
What image is present in the third line of this fifth stanza?

Adolescence arrived. I was surprised by life

caught in the widest part of your eternal journey;
andI was yours a thousand times, and in a beautiful romance
you awakened my soul and kissed my body.
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Anaphora

Sensory image

hyperbole

metaphor

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Question102 pts.
In this same stanza, in the last verse, what did the poet try to
explain to us about her life? What...

Adolescence arrived. I was surprised by life

caught in the widest part of your eternal journey;
andI was yours a thousand times, and in a beautiful romance
you awakened my soul and kissed my body.
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found love

became a woman

she felt possessed by the river

adolescence arrived

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Question112 pts.
METRIC: How many syllables are there in each line of this
stanza?

Where did you take the waters that bathed

my forms, in the spike of the newly opened sun?
Who knows in what remote Mediterranean country
somefaun on the beach may be possessing me!
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14-14-15-14

14-14-14-14

14-15-14-14

15-15-14-14

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Question122 pts.
What image is present in the last line of this stanza?

Who knows in what downpour of what distant land

I'll be pouring myself to open new furrows;
or perhaps, tired of biting hearts,
I'll be freezing in ice crystals!
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metaphor

anaphora

similar

prosopopoeia
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Question132 pts.
What message does the second verse "I will be pouring myself out
to open new furrows" carry? What...

Who knows in what downpour of what distant land

I'll be pouring myself to open new furrows;
or perhaps, tired of biting hearts,
I'll be freezing in ice crystals!
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the river is free when it leaves its course.

Julia wants to be as free as the river.

the girl is becoming a woman.

the island needs to look for other political directions.

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Question142 pts.
In this eighth stanza, what can you interpret thisfirst verse to
represent? It may represent....

Rio Grande de Loíza! Blue, Brown, Red.

Blue mirror, fallen blue piece of the sky;
naked white flesh that turns black
every time the night gets into your bed;
red strip of blood, when the rain comes down
in torrents its mud the hills vomit on you.
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the different social classes and racial groups existing in Puerto

Rico.

the different political parties existing at that time in Puerto Rico.

to the sister islands of the Caribbean.

to the men he loved in his life.

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Question152 pts.
In this last stanza, Julia de Burgos expresses a political
denunciation by comparing the RioGrande to a bigcry. Why do you
think he uses this expression? By.

Rio Grande de Loíza!...Rio Grande. Big cry.

The biggest of all our island cries,
if it were not bigger the one that comes out of me
through the eyes of the soul for my slave people.
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her experiences as a woman.

the stages of your life.

his slave people.

the economic pressures of society.

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Question162 pts.
What literary image does the Río Grande de Loíza represent in all
the poetry?
It represents the personification of...
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Julia

a man

your Carolina town

Nature