Notes on Multiple Choice Questions on "To His Coy Mistress"
Notes on Multiple Choice Questions on “To His Coy Mistress” Anaphora: the repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. Example: “I had never seen a zebra crossing before, never seen a tram, never seen an unsliced loaf of bread, never seen anyone wearing a beret who expected to be taken seriously, never seen people go into different shops to buy separate courses for their dinner....” from Bill Bryson’s NEITHER HERE NOR THERE. The use of the anaphora heightens emotional impact, increases the importance, emphasizes the emotion or builds tension. It drives home the point of the writer. Sedentary: not active; spending most of one’s time sitting Confound: to destroy Synethesia: the mixing up of the senses: to see music, to hear color, etc. Used in literature to suggest an intense heightened artistic/aesthetic sensibility and/or pathology. Libidinous: sexual desire. The libido is sexual energy; libidinous is the adjective describing someone as having...