Before you were mine

Who wrote "Before you were mine"?

• Maura Dooley

• Carol Ann Duffy

• Charlotte Mew

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The relationship in this poem is describing....

• a mother / daughter relationship

• a relationship between lovers

• an old friendship

Duffy describes her mother's high heeled shoes as....

• relics

• dusty and cracked

• new and shiny

The poem's form fits in many ways with a DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE but why is this not complete, the same as in the poem 'Love's Philosophy'?

• It would need to be fictional and both poems are based on true relationships.

• This poem does not contain a rhetorical question and it therefore doesn't fit.

• The other person is speaking later in the poem.

The STRUCTURE of the poem is four verses with 5 lines in a verse. What does this reflect?

• A repetitive structure which reflects the inevitability of the role of women in society during the 1940's/1950's.

• A controlled structure which reflects the control that the daughter has over her mother.

• Both of these answers.

There is a CYCLICAL STRUCTURE in this poem which reflects the repetition and inability to escape one's fate. Which word is used to create this cyclical structure?

• Pavement

• Laugh

• Ballroom

• Stars

A CAESURA is a strong pause used to break the flow of a poem, where is this used best?

• 'before I was born.'

• 'you reckon it's worth it.'

• 'I'm not here yet.'

A SYNAESTHESIA is a technique used to....

• deliberately blend the senses.

• describe an object with human attibutes.

• carry on a line to another line.

'I see you clear as scent' is a......

• Synaesthesia

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Rhetorical question

The key RHETORICAL QUESTION in this poem is......

• 'whose small bites on your neck, sweetheart?'

• 'why not I with thine?'

• 'How much do you charge for that moon baby?'

• 'Is your life more real because you dig and sow?'