1722
In the service of the Dutch West India
Company. I set out to sea on an expedition to
seek a new continent, Terra Australis. We
have yet found no such place. What we have
found instead is an island which we have
called Easter, for the day upon which we
discovered it, and on this island live a people
who, by some wondrous effort, have
surrounded their villages with stone statues
30-feet high before which they light sacred
fires nightly. How such enormous monuments
were moved across the land is a mystery, and
when asked to reveal the secret the chief will
say only, with a wry smile. "They walk. Under
the astonished, wide-eyed moon, with the
Reread the 1722 entry, on pages 4 and 5.
Click the sentence in this section that BEST uses
personification to emphasize the narrator's sense
of wonder.
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Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet