AP lit - author to her book

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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


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