Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:<br/>O stealing time, the subject of delay,<br/>Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,<br/>What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?<br/>My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?<br/>Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,<br/>Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,<br/>Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,<br/>Old age overcome the greater honour gives.<br/>The rhyme scheme of the above extract is

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:<br/>O stealing time, the subject of delay,<br/>Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,<br/>What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?<br/>My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?<br/>Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,<br/>Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,<br/>Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,<br/>Old age overcome the greater honour gives.<br/>The literary device used in line 1 is an example of

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:<br/>O stealing time, the subject of delay,<br/>Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,<br/>What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?<br/>My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?<br/>Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,<br/>Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,<br/>Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,<br/>Old age overcome the greater honour gives.<br/>The literary device used in lines 3 and 4 of stanza 1 is

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:<br/>O stealing time, the subject of delay,<br/>Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,<br/>What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?<br/>My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?<br/>Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,<br/>Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,<br/>Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,<br/>Old age overcome the greater honour gives.<br/>The predominant figure of speech in stanza ll is

Read the following poem carefully and answer the questions that follow:<br/>O stealing time, the subject of delay,<br/>Delay the rack of unrefrained desire,<br/>What strange design has thou my hopes to stay?<br/>My hopes which do but to mine own aspire?<br/>Old age is wise, and full of constant truth,<br/>Old age well stayed from ranging humours lives,<br/>Old age hath known, whatever was in youth,<br/>Old age overcome the greater honour gives.<br/>The mood of the poet is that of