Mirror by Sylvia Plath

When the mirror is being described as being 'unmisted by love or dislike' we understand that the mirror is

• not misted

• not prejudiced and unbiased

• has four angles

• is silver in colour

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The other word for 'agitated' is……….

• contempt

• meditation

• frustrated and angry

• thoughtful

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The mirror has been called 'a four-cornered god' because:

• it is square shaped

• like God it watches you unbiased and fair from all four angles

• it reflects back all that it sees

• it never stops reflecting

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The 'speckles' refer to:

• small spots

• pink wall

• a person with pink pimples

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I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.

Whatever I see I swallow immediately

‘I’ here refers to......

• The poet

• The mirror

• A woman

• A god.

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The woman turns away from the mirror as she is afraid of

• is unable to face The mirror

• Others

• The reality

• Herself in the mirror

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The woman is searching for .....

• Her real self

• Her lost purse

• Her old self

• Her lost youth

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When the poet says that the mirror has no preconceptions it means.

• It reflects your image vaguely.

• It gives an unbiased and truthful view of the person.

• It is emotionally involved with the person whose image it reflects.

• It does not care what the other person thinks of it.

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Which Literary device has been used in the given line?

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

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Simile

• Metaphor

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A woman bends over me,

Searching my reaches for what she really is.

Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.

What is the woman bending over?

• the mirror

• the lake

• the opposite wall

• the moon and the candles

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