Mirror Plath

Which two sentences best express possible interpretations of the simile in the last two lines of the poem?

• The woman becomes more terrible each day. 

• The woman’s view of herself makes her grow older. 

• The woman loses a little bit more of her youth when she looks in the mirror. 

• The woman sees her image in the mirror move the same way a fish moves. 

• The woman’s view of her physical self grows more and more negative. 

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What single idea is developed throughout the poem? Cite evidence from the poem to support your response. 

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This question has two parts. First, answer Part A. Then, answer Part B.
 

______ Part A: Which theme can the reader infer from lines 15–18? 

• Romantic love never lasts. 

• The truth is quickly uncovered. 

• People should reflect on the past. 

• Beauty fading is inevitable. 

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Part B:  before the highlighted text from the poem that best supports the answer to Part A.

• I am important to her. She comes and goes. 

• Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. 

•   in me an old woman/Rises toward her day after day,  

   

• like a terrible fish. 

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What does the mirror mean by this statement?

• It really does want to be cruel.

• It really wants to please the woman.

• It really has to try harder to reflect the woman more kindly.

• It cannot do anything else except reflect the woman as she really is.

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Who is the speaker in this poem?

• Sylvia Plath

• The poet

• The woman

• The mirror

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I am silver and exact is an example of ________

• personification

• imagery

• irony

• none of the above

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What extended metaphor is used to compare the mirror to in the second stanza of “Mirror?”

• A cup

• A lake

• A god

• A bowl

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All of the following lines are examples of how the mirror is personified in “Mirror,” EXCEPT:

• “Whatever I see I swallow immediately”

• “I think it is part of my heart”

• “Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.”

• “Now I am a lake.”

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The mirror in the poem “Mirror” says it is “not cruel, only ______:

• Understanding

• Truthful

• Lying

• Faithful

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