"I've Dropped My Brain"

Stanza 1

100

What is the tone?

A. Playful 

B. Despair

C. Serious

D. Hopeful

B. Despair

200

What are two types of meters in this poem?

A. Iambic Tetraheater and Iambic Triheater

B. Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter

C. Heated Lamb and Iced Lamb

B. Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter

300

What does the metaphor about stone reference?

A. Mental Block

B. Fate

C. Motionlessness

D. The Flintstones

C. Motionlessness

400

What represents the speakers experience?

A. Endstops

B. her illness

C. Her pet fish

D.  Caesuras

A. Endstops or D. Caesuras

500

What is something that the speaker experienced?

A. Marriage

B. Cancer

C. Flying 

D. Mental Block

D. Mental Block

Stanza 2

100

What is the tone?

A. Greatful

B. Spiteful

C. Gloomy

D. Serious

C. Gloomy

200

(Freebie Question) No Specific Stanza

What is the title of this poem?

I've Dropped My Brain

300

The speaker's life is...

A. Just beginning 

B. Carved

C. Her children

B. Carved

400

What do caesuras and endstops show?

A. Disorientation

B. Author's Experiences

C. Constellations

A. Disorientation

500

What is beyond the speaker's mental block?

(Free Response)

A person that is vivid

Stanza 3

100

What is the tone?

A. Arrogant

B.Curious

C. Detached

C. Detached

200

What does the bird symbolize?

A. Death

B. Rebirth

C. Nature

D. Freedom

D. Freedom 

300

What does dancing represent?

A. Life

B. Mobility

C. Freedom

B. Mobility

400

What is the transition?

A. Reflective State

B. Temperature

C. No Transition

A. Reflective State

500

What is the significance of "aptitude of the bird?"

Physical and Mental Freedom

Stanza 4

100

What is the tone?

A. Diplomatic

B. Condescending

C. Desolate

D. None of the above

C. Desolate

200

What does a fighting spirit signify?

A. Death Feeling

B. Rebirth Feeling

C. Motivation

D. None of the above

A. death feeling

300

What is Carrara?

A. Grave

B. Marble

C. Art

D.  Animal

B. Marble

400

What did the speaker use the word tune for?

A. To talk about music

B. Refer to her ability to write

C. Neither

D. Refer to her ability to write

500

What does tune refer to in the third stanza?

Dancing

Stanza 5

100

Freebie Question (No specific Stanza)

Who is the speaker of the poem

Emily Dickinson

200

What is the tone?

A. Playful

B. Somber

C.  Lonely

B. Somber

300

What shows a rational thought process?

A. End Stops

B. Caesuras

C. Mental Block

D. None of the above

A. End Stops or C. Caesuras

400

What will the speaker retaliate?

A. Her Readers

B. Family

C. Curse 

D. Life

C. Curse

500

What type of freedom did the speaker want to achieve?

Mental Freedom