Those Winter Sundays

What emotion is expressed in the last two lines?

• appreciation
• embarrassment
  
• reflection
• regret

"I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.

When the rooms were warm, he'd call

and slowly I would rise and dress,

fearing the chronic angers of that house,"

What is the tone of the lines?

• Happiness

• Warmth

• Apprehension

• Fearful

Why is the multiple meaning of the word OFFICES in line 14 important to the poem?

• It refers to both a duty and a service done for others
• It conveys the father's mixed emotions
• it refers to a place and an executive position
• it indicates the size of the speaker's house

In line 5, the sentence " No one ever thanked him", suggests the poem explores the theme of

• uninformed judgement
• domestic problems
• suppressed excitement
• belated gratitude

The poem's setting is important because it helps contrast :

• The family's physical closeness and emotional distance

• The opinions of the hardworking father and the lazy child

• Th presence of the father and the absence of the mother

• The different values of the siblings in the family

The tone of the poem can be described as

• carefree
• optimistic
• self righteous
• regretful

The author begins a new stanza in line 6 most likely to show a shift from:

• The distant past to the immediate future

• literal language to figurative language

• a focus on the father to a focus on the speaker

• an uncritical attitude to a self critical attitude

The repetition of the lines "What did I know, what did I know" is an example of the literary device called:

• Parallelism

• Oxymoron

• metaphor

• symbolism

In poetry, the narrator is called:

• the narrator

• the speaker

• the poet

• the voice

When you refer to a word's symbolic or implied meaning, it is called:

• denotation

• inference

• supposition

• connotation