Think you’ve got your head wrapped around The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Love Song is a great example of a...?
Fictional monologue
Dramatic monologue
Tragic monologue
Poetic monologue
Q. Who is Prufrock talking to?
Us, the reader of his poem
His lover
The Grim Reaper
The muse of Poetry
Q. The impression we get of Prufrock is...?
Exactly what he wants us to have
The opposite of what he intends us to have
Informed only by what other people say about Prufrock
That he's a hottie with a body
Q. The fact that Eliot throws a few heroic couplets into Love Song is...?
Ironic because Prufrock is anything but heroic
Sympathetic because Eliot thinks that Prufrock is a true hero
Satirical because Eliot hated the heroic tradition
Delicious because nothing tastes better than a hot, buttered couplet
Q. Eliot employs iambic pentameter in the stanza that discusses Hamlet. This is because...?
Shakespeare used iambic pentameter
Hamlet never used iambic pentameter
Iambic pentameter was not around in Shakespeare's day
Will Shakespeare was allergic to iambs