Who wrote "Before you were mine"?
Before you were mine

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Maura Dooley
Carol Ann Duffy
Charlotte Mew
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The relationship in this poem is describing....
a mother / daughter relationship
a relationship between lovers
an old friendship
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Duffy describes her mother's high heeled shoes as....
relics
dusty and cracked
new and shiny
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
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.'
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