Sara Teasdale's After Love Poem

Which statement best describes Sara Teasdale's tone in "After Love"?

• Joyful

• Relieved

• Hopeful

• Annoyed

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In Stanza 1, The speaker addresses a relationship where he/she is clearly ______.

• Recovered From

• Regretting

• devastated by

• Missing

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The Rhyme scheme of After Love is....

• ABCB

• ABBA

• ABAB

• None

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In Stanza 2, the phrase "you were the Wind and I the Sea" shows that their relationship was...

• Respectful

• peaceful

• turbulent

• exciting

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In Stanza 2, What does "Listless" mean?

• excited

• bitter

• lacking energy

• turbulent

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In Stanza 3, "But though the pool is asafe from the storm" is an example of...

• Personification

• simile

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

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In this poem, the relationship is compared to what?

• Natural elements or emotional states.
• A historical event
• A fictional character
• A type of food

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Literally: Why is the sea "bitter?"

• The sea is 'bitter' because of its high salt content.
• The sea is 'bitter' from the presence of jellyfish.
• The sea is 'bitter' because of cold temperatures.
• The sea is 'bitter' due to pollution.

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Figuratively: Why is the sea "bitter"?

• The sea is 'bitter' from the presence of jellyfish.
• The sea is 'bitter' because of the speaker's saltiness and the emotional connotations of loss and struggle.

• The sea is 'bitter' because the speaker is too cold.

• The sea is 'bitter' due to "pollution and waste of their relationship".

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In the Poem, After Love, what is Teasdale's tone?

• Joyful and celebratory
• Indifferent and detached
• Reflective and melancholic
• Angry and resentful

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