AP lit - author to her book
In lines 22-24 the author presents the book as...
A burden
The relationship between the authro and her book can best be characterized as
A mother and her daughter
The primary purpose of lines 23-24 is to? "I cast thee by as one unfit for light, Thy Visage was so irksome in my sight;
A. Personification
The statement " I wash'd thy face, but more defects I saw, And rubbing off a spot, still made a flaw." is best described as
B. A criticism of the book's imperfections
Lines 24-25 ("And for... door") are best understood to mean
C) The speaker D) The speaker sold her baby for money because she was poor E)The speaker rejected her book because of its imperfections
Which description best characterizes the poem?
C. A poem about the imperfections of a published work.
Which devices are used in lines 13 and 14
Couplet
These pair of phrases are examples of metaphor
D. "My rambling brat (in print) should mother call" and "a ragged diamond, formed at random"
In content, the word "unfit" primarily serves
D. highlight the book's imperfections.
The poem can best be classified as
Dramatic monologue
Lines ___ describe a change from the speaker's initial feelings towards her work.
E. Lines 24-25, "Yet being mine own, at length affection would / Thy blemishes amend, if so I could"
Lines 14-17 of the poem serve as the
Emotional Climax
In LIne 1, ill form'd offspring is best understood to mean>
Her book
The meter of the poem is best described as
Iambic Pentameter
In the passage as a whole, the speaker's tone can best be described as
Insecure
According to the poem which statement about the book is true?
It's filled with many errors
In lines 13, the speaker suggests that her efforts to fix the book
Made its imperfections more evident
Which literary device is used in line 1 "thou... brain"?
Metaphor
The first line of the poem primarily serve to...
Reveal that the speaker has an negative opinion of her own writing
In Lines 13-15 (thy... flaw) the speaker implies that
She cannot fix the errors in her writing no matter how hard she tries
The poem employs all of the following except
Simile
The misspelled words, such as "publick" and "joynts" are an example of the author's
Style
The primary purpose of lines 23-24 is to..
Suggest that the auhtor did not want to publish the imperfect book ,but had to out of necessity
The speaker describes her brain as feeble in line 1 in order to..
Take some responsibility for how the book turned out
In line 10, the word visage is best interpreted as suggesting that
The book on the inside
In line 1, 'feeble" is best understood to mean?
Weak
The statement, " I cast thee by as one unfit for light/ thy visage was so irksome in my sight" is best described as
a hyperbole
The entire poem is a
an extended metaphor comparin ga mother and daughter to an author and book
The statement "Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true", is best described as
irony
Which device is used in line 1
metaphor
Lines 13-14 primarily serve to
show that the narrator has trouble fixing the errors in her book
The phrase " i stretched thy joynts to make thee even feet, / Yet still thou run'st more hobling than is meet" refers directly to
the author trying to improve the book, but it words were still clumsily written