1 What is the difference between a word's denotation and its connotation?
Correct. A poem's power often comes from the gap between what its words say literally and what they suggest.
Denotation is the literal, dictionary meaning. Connotation is everything the word suggests beyond that.
2 Why does the lesson say literature unfolds in time?
Correct. Unlike a painting, which gives you everything at once, a poem or story is sequential, and that sequence is part of its form.
Contrast literature with painting. A painting is all at once; a poem or story arrives word by word.
3 Which kind of narrative integrates every detail so tightly that nothing can be removed without damaging the whole?
Correct. Borges's story is the lesson's example: every detail connects to its central theme.
Episodic narratives are loosely connected adventures, and quest narratives follow a search. The one in which every detail depends on the others is organic.
4 A quest narrative is built around
Correct. A quest narrative builds suspense around whether the protagonist will find what they seek.
The word quest names a search. The lesson describes it as a protagonist looking for something of supreme value.
5 What does a lyric poem usually do?
Correct. Unlike narrative, a lyric does not tell a story. Dickinson's and Hughes's poems are lyrics.
A lyric is not mainly a story. It concentrates a feeling or insight into a short space.
6 What is an objective correlative?
Correct. A bare tree in winter, for example, can correlate with loss or emptiness without the poem saying so.
The key idea is expressing an emotion through an object or situation instead of naming it. That is the objective correlative.
7 Which statement correctly distinguishes simile from metaphor?
Correct. "Like a raisin in the sun" is a simile; calling death a gentleman caller is a metaphor.
The words like and as mark a simile. A metaphor states the comparison directly.
8 In Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death," what do the school, the gazing grain, and the setting sun represent as the carriage passes them?
Correct. The poem never explains the images; it trusts them to carry the meaning, which is part of what makes it powerful.
The carriage passes images that stand for phases of a life. Think of the order: children at school, ripe grain, the end of the day.
9 How does the last line of Hughes's "Harlem" differ from the rest of the poem?
Correct. The shift from specific images to one abstract verb, set apart in italics, gives the ending enormous force.
The poem answers its opening question with five similes and then changes strategy. Look for what the final line stops doing.
10 According to the Gallery lesson, why do most of Shakespeare's plays survive?
Correct. About half of his plays were first printed in the Folio. Literature depends on the physical form that carries it.
The Gallery highlights how books preserve literature. Shakespeare wrote for the stage; the collected volume that saved the plays appeared after his death.