Flashcard on My Mother's Piece Quiz Studysync

Front

The speaker mentions the following items (lines 25-27) mainly to show ___________.

Back

the things her mother would use to piece together the quilts

Front

Inference about the mother’s quilts from the entire poem.

Back

The mother’s quilts have had both practical and symbolic significance to the speaker.

Front

Inference from stanza: oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing/ into our past/ into the river crossing at five /into the spinach fields /into the plainview cotton rows /into tuberculosis wards/ into braids and muslin dresses /sewn hard and taut to withstand the thrashings of /twenty-five years /

Back

The speaker’s family likely did farm work in order to survive.

Front

Which lines from this stanza most strongly support the answer to Question 3?

Back

into the spinach fields / into the plainview cotton rows

Front

Words in the poem meaning---the words tight

Back

taut

Front

matured

Back

ripened

Front

unraveled

Back

frayed

Front

oval

Back

oblong

Front

weaponry

Back

artillery

Front

thrust

Back

plunged