Before you were mine

Before you were mine

9th - 12th Grade

12 Qs

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Before you were mine

Before you were mine

Assessment

Quiz

English

9th - 12th Grade

Medium

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who wrote "Before you were mine"?

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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