Unit 3 Test Review

Which line from the poem, "Mirror", best supports that the narrator is objective?

• I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. 

• The eye of a little god, four-cornered. 

  Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.

• Faces and darkness separate us over and over. 

In the line The eye of a little god, four-cornered, from the poem, "Mirror", the eye of a little god gives the impression that the mirror:

• Sees all

• Is cruel

• Controls all sees all

Which line from "Mirror" supports that the woman avoids seeing her true self?

• Line 4 - I am not cruel, only truthful

• Line 12 - then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon

• Line 15 - I am important to her. She comes and goes.

What can be interpreted of the simile in the last two lines of the poem, "Mirror"?

• The woman becomes more terrible and rude each day.

• The woman's view of herself makes her grow older and smaller.

• The woman's view of her physical self grows more negative as more of her youth is lost when she looks in the mirror.

Which lines from the poem "Mirror", best support the theme of 'Beauty fading is inevitable.'

•  I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. 

  Whatever I see I swallow immediately 

  Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. 

  I am not cruel, only truthful,

• It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long 

  I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. 

  Faces and darkness separate us over and over. 

  
  

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

  Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness. 

  In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman 

  Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish. 

Line 4 of the poem "Mirror", the mirror claims 'I am not cruel, only truthful.' What is meant by this comment?

• The mirror can only reflect what is in front of it.

• The mirror wishes it did not have to tell the truth.

• The mirror wishes it could have a conversation with the woman.

Line 12 of the poem, "Mirror", the candles and the moon are called liars because they:

• come and go instead of being constantly present

• alter the woman's perception of reality

• are at war with the mirror

Which figurative language is used in this line of the poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay"?

Nature’s first green is gold,

• None

• Metaphor

• Simile

Which of the following means two lines that rhyme?

• rhyming couplets

• assonance

• rhythm

Which sound device is used in this line from the poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay",

So Eden sank to grief, 

• Assonance

• Rhythm

• Alliteration