The Three Fates

There is a sense that the reader is left to draw their own conclusion about the moral of the poem

• True

• Falsw

What narrative voice is used

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

This poem takes the form of

• Tercets (3 line stanzas)

• Quatrain (4 line stanzas)

• Couplet (2 line stanzas)

This poem begins and end at the river, this reflects

• How the protagonist is condemned to repeat his life

• How water is a main theme in the poem

• That the poem was written by a river

Repeating his life alongside his immortality, produces the effect of a

• Simile

• Juxtaposition

• Metaphor

A quick succession of verb phrases (came up like a cork, put on his clothes, returned to the house) reflects

• The speed and repetitiveness of his reverse life

• The environment of the poem

• How the writer didn't want to use long sentences

The Three Fates are figures from

• Greek mythology

• Othello by Shakespeare

• Roman mythology

According to mythology the Three Fates have the power to

• Control when and how we will fall in love

• Control where we are born

• Control human destiny - how long we will live and how we will die

'He came up like a cork' is an example of a

• Metaphor

• Onomatopoeia

• Simile

'From the end backward......brush away tears that have not yet fallen......watch his loved one grow younger......it began all over'. These examples from the poem contribute to the tone of

• Sadness

• Enjoyment

• Pathos

• Reluctance