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Q. In what poetic form is "Carrion Comfort" written?
Shakespearean sonnet
Petrarchan sonnet
haiku
alliteration
Q. What is the name of the metrical technique Hopkins uses in "Carrion Comfort"?
internal rhythm
sprung rhythm
slant rhythm
rhythm of the night
Q. What poetic technique is present in the line "In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;"?
allotment
enjambment
alliteration
atonement
Q. What poetic technique is present in the line "Nay in all that toil, that coil, since (seems) I kissed the rod,"?
slant rhyme
eye rhyme
internal rhyme
sneak rhyme
Q. In "Carrion Comfort," what is the turn at the beginning of the final sestet called?
pay-off
volta
octet
zappa