Must know** The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope

In line 25, what is “ombre”?

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A type of dress

A card game

A painting

A boat

What reminds the Baron of his desire to steal the lock?

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Ombre

Coffee

Tea

Wine

The sprites do all of the following to repel the Baron’s attack EXCEPT:

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Blow back the hair

Pour coffee on the Baron

Twitch the diamond in her ear

Jump in between the scissor blades

What is a forfex?

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A lock of hair

A container

Scissors

A China vessel

What is Belinda’s response to the cutting of the lock of hair?

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Laugh

Cry

Scream

Faint

Which passage best shows the author’s use of descriptive language?

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Or when rich China vessels, fall’n from high/In glitt’ring dust and painted fragments lie.

Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort / To taste a while the pleasures of a court…

At once they gratify their scent and taste / And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.

What Time would spare, from steel receives its date / And monuments, like men, submit to fate!

Which of the following passages again shows Pope’s use of imagery?

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Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine / (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine!

The peer now spreads the glitt’ring forfex wide/T’inclose the lock; now joins it, to divide.

But see how oft ambitious aims are cross’d / And chiefs contend until all the prize is lost!

Suddenly, these honors shall be snatch’d away / And cursed for ever this victorious day.

Which of the following passages again shows Pope’s use of literary allusion?

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O thoughtless mortals! ever blind to fate / Too soon dejected, and too soon elate.

Not fierce Othello in so loud a strain/Roar’d for the handkerchief that caused his pain.

At once they gratify their scent and taste / And frequent cups prolong the rich repast.

Thrice she look’d back, and thrice the foe drew near.

Which of the following passages shows the author’s use of imagery?

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Then flash’d the living lightning from her eyes/And screams of horror rend th’ affrighted skies.

“Now meet thy fate,” incensed Belinda cried / And drew a deadly bodkin from her side…

Suddenly he view’d, in spite of all her art, an earthly lover lurking at her heart.

Snuff, or the fan, supply each pause of chat / With singing, laughing, ogling, and all that.

Which of the following passages from The Rape of the Lock shows the author’s use of literary allusion?

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Just then, Clarissa drew with tempting grace / A two-edged weapon from her shining case…

Heroes’ and heroines’ shouts confusedly rise / And bass and treble voices strike the skies.

Ah, cease rash youth! Desist ere ‘tis too late/ Fear the just gods, and think of Scylla’s fate!

“Restore the lock!” she cries; and all around / “Restore the lock!” the vaulted roofs abound.