Mirror by Sylvia Plath

1.

Multiple Choice

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When the mirror is being described as being 'unmisted by love or dislike' we understand that the mirror is

not misted

not prejudiced and unbiased

has four angles

is silver in colour

2.

Multiple Choice

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The other word for 'agitated' is……….

contempt

meditation

frustrated and angry

thoughtful

3.

Multiple Choice

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The mirror has been called 'a four-cornered god' because:

it is square shaped

like God it watches you unbiased and fair from all four angles

it reflects back all that it sees

it never stops reflecting

4.

Multiple Choice

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The 'speckles' refer to:

small spots

pink wall

a person with pink pimples

5.

Multiple Choice

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I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see I swallow immediately

‘I’ here refers to......

The poet

The mirror

A woman

A god.

6.

Multiple Choice

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The woman turns away from the mirror as she is afraid of

is unable to face The mirror

Others

The reality

Herself in the mirror

7.

Multiple Choice

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The woman is searching for .....

Her real self

Her lost purse

Her old self

Her lost youth

8.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

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When the poet says that the mirror has no preconceptions it means.

It reflects your image vaguely.

It gives an unbiased and truthful view of the person.

It is emotionally involved with the person whose image it reflects.

It does not care what the other person thinks of it.

9.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

Which Literary device has been used in the given line?

Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

Personification

Alliteration

Simile

Metaphor

10.

Multiple Choice

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A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

What is the woman bending over?

the mirror

the lake

the opposite wall

the moon and the candles

11.

Multiple Choice

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1 pt

Who is the author of the poem, 'Mirror'?

Sylvia Plath

Shelley

Coleridge

Wordsworth

12.

Multiple Choice

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"Over and over" is an example of

Personification

Alliteration

Repetition

Simile

13.

Multiple Choice

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Sylvia Plath is

American poet

German Poet

Spanish poet

Indian poet

14.

Multiple Choice

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Sylvia Plath's ______ is reflected in her poetry.

Children

Life

economic status

historical hypotheses

15.

Multiple Choice

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The following line is an example of _____

Line 2: "Whatever I see I swallow immediately"

Personification, It implies that the mirror consumes whatever it sees

Simile: It is comparing the mirror something that sees

Metaphor: It is comparing the mirror without using 'like' or 'as'

16.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

The woman eventually turns away from the mirror, preventing her from seeing her true self (Line 12). What does she turn to instead?

tears and agitation of hands

the wall (it is pink with speckles)

candles, or the moon

17.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

1 pt

The author uses the word drowned in Line 17 to suggest...

that the woman drowned in the lake

the woman accepts that she is aging

the woman is unhappy about her failed marriage

the passing of time

18.

Multiple Choice

45 sec

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The last line of the poem is a simile that suggests...

the woman is becoming a more terrible person

the woman is becoming as ugly as a fish

the woman slowly loses her youth over time.

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