Question 1 2 pts.

How would you classify the title of the poem Río Grande de
Loíza ?
Group of response options

literal

metaphorical

symbolic

image

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Question 2 2 pts.
In this second stanza what literary figure is present?

Wrap yourself around my lips and let me drink you,

to feel mine for a brief moment,
and hide from the world, and hide in yourself,
and hear voices of astonishment, in the mouth of the wind.
Group of response options

Asyndeton

Simile

Polysyndeton

Anaphora

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Question 3 2 pts.
In this second stanza, in the last verse, the phrase: “and hear
voices of astonishment” what literary figure does it show?
 Wrap yourself around my lips and let me drink you,
to feel mine for a brief moment,
and hide from the world, and hide in yourself,
and hear voices of astonishment, in the mouth of the wind.
Group of response options

Hyperbole

Asyndeton

Prosopopoeia

sensory image

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Question 4 2 pts.
In the last verse of this second stanza it says: “in the mouth of the
wind.”
This image is known as prosopopoeia, because it attributes…

Wrap yourself around my lips and let me drink you,

to feel mine for a brief moment,
and hide from the world, and hide in yourself,
and hear voices of astonishment, in the mouth of the wind.
Group of response options

human qualities to the wind

sound in the wind

wind characteristics

exaggerated features in the wind

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Question 5 2 pts.
RHYME: In the third stanza that appears below, what is the rhyme
worked in the verses?

Get off the back of the earth for a moment,

and search for my desires for the intimate secret;
confuse me in the flight of my fantasy bird,
and leave me a rose of water in my dreams.
Group of response options

ABBA

ABAB

ABBC

ABCC

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Question 6 2 pts.
What literary image did the author use in the verse “ My desires
seek the intimate secret ”?

Get off the back of the earth for a moment,

and search for my desires for the intimate secret;
confuse me in the flight of my fantasy bird,
and leave me a rose of water in my dreams.
Group of response options

pleonasm

anaphora

polysyndeton

hyperbole

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Question 7 2 pts.
This poem is divided into four times, what time does the second
verse represent?
Río Grande de Loíza!.. My spring, my river,
since the maternal petal rose to the world;
with you they came down from the rough slopes
to look for new furrows, my pale desires;
and my childhood was a poem in the river,
of my first dreams and a river in the poem.
Group of response options

Childhood

Birth

Adolescence

Adulthood

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Question 8 2 pts.
In the same fourth stanza, what time does the sixth line
represent?
Río Grande de Loíza!.. My spring, my river,
since the maternal petal rose to the world;
with you they came down from the rough slopes
to look for new furrows, my pale desires;
and my childhood was a poem in the river,
and a river in the poem of my first dreams.
Group of response options

childhood

birth

adolescence
adulthood

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Question 9 2 points.
What image is present in the third verse of this fifth stanza?

Adolescence arrived. life surprised me

caught in the widest part of your eternal journey;
and I was yours a thousand times, and in a beautiful romance
You woke up my soul and kissed my body.
Group of response options

Anaphora

sensory image

hyperbole

metaphor

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Question 10 2 pts.
In this same stanza, in the last verse, what did the poet try to
explain to us about her life? That…

Adolescence arrived. life surprised me

caught in the widest part of your eternal journey;
and I was yours a thousand times, and in a beautiful romance
You woke up 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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Question 11 2 pts.
METRIC: How many syllables does each line of this stanza have?

Where did you take the waters that washed

my forms, in herringbone of the recently opened sun?
Who knows in what remote Mediterranean country
some faun on the beach will be possessing me!
Group of response options

14-14-15-14

14-14-14-14

14-15-14-14

15-15-14-14

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Question 12 2 pts.
What image is present in the last verse of this stanza?

Who knows in what downpour from what distant land

I will be pouring myself out to open new furrows;
or if anything, tired of biting hearts,
I'll be freezing in ice crystals!
Group of response options

metaphor

anaphora

simile

prosopopoeia

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Question 13 2 pts.
What message does the second verse carry, “ I will be pouring
myself out to open new furrows ”? That…

Who knows in what downpour from what distant land

I will be pouring myself out to open new furrows;
or if anything, tired of biting hearts,
I'll be freezing in ice crystals!
Group of response options

The river is free when it leaves its channel.

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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Question 14 2 pts.
In this eighth stanza, what can you interpret this first verse to
represent? It can represent…

Río Grande de Loíza! Blue, Brown, Red.

Blue mirror, fallen blue piece of the sky;
naked white flesh that turns black
every time the night creeps into your bed;
red stripe of blood, when the rain comes down
The hills vomit their mud at you in torrents.
Group of response options

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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Question 15 2 pts.
In this last stanza, Julia de Burgos expresses a political complaint
by comparing the Big River with a big cry . Why do you think he
uses this expression? By…

Río Grande de Loíza!... Big river. Big cry.

The greatest of all our island cries,
If the one that comes out of me wasn't bigger
through the eyes of the soul for my slave people.
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her experiences as a woman.

the stages of his life.

his slave people.

the economic pressures of society.

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Question 16 2 pts.
What literary image does the Río Grande de Loíza represent in all
the poetry?
It represents the personification of…
Group of response options

Julia

a man

his town of Carolina

Nature