Worksheets"Mirror" by Sylvia Plath
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
When the mirror is being described as being "unmisted by love or dislike,"we understand that the mirror
is silver in color
is not misted
is not prejudicedd and unbiased
has four angles
"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately"
"I" refers to....
The poet
A woman
A god
The mirror
When the poet says that the mirror has no preconceptions it means....
It does not care what the other person thinks of it.
It gives an unbiased and truthful view of the person.
It reflects your image vaguely.
It is emotionally involved with the person whose image it reflects .
What literary device has been used in the line below?
"Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish."
Personification
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
" A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candle or the moon."
What is the woman bending over?
The mirror
The lake
The moon and the candles
The opposite wall
Who is the speaker in this poem?
Sylvia Plath
The poet
The mirror
The woman
This poem is a sustained example of _______________.
Rhyme
Personification
Alliteration
Poetic language
What has happened to the young girl in the poem?
She got lost.
She drowned.
She broke the mirror.
She grew old.
Which word best characterizes the speaker in the first stanza of the poem?
Sympathetic
Annoyed
Objective
Critical
The use of swallow in line 2 is an example of personification. What effect does it have on the poem?
It conveys the way the mirror completely consumes whatever it see.
It reveeals how hungry tthe mirror is for new images to consume.
It explains why the mirror has grown tired of seeing the same things.
It sugges the mirror reflects anything blocking its view of the wall.
The metaphor "eye of a little god" in line 5 gives the impression that the mirror....
Controls all
Is cruel
Is serious
Sees all
When turning to "those liars, the candles or the moon" in line 12, the woman ....
Sees her true physical beauty
Avoids discovering her true self
Recognizes her true identity
Hopes to hear the truth about herself
The poem shifts in the second stanza by ....
revealing the mirror's feelings of anger
exploring the godlike nature of the mirror
Focusing on the woman's reactions
Comparing the light with the darkness
Which two statements best describe the structure of the poem?
The poem emphasizes a steady beat.
The poem contains lines without a fixed meter.
The poem has clear and regular rhyme scheme.
The poem maintains a strict syllabic count per line.
The poem is divided into two stanzas.
Which two sentences best express possible interpretations of the simile in the last two lines of the poem?
The woman because more terrible each day.
The woman's view of herself makes her grown older.
The woman loses a little bit more of her youth when she looks in the mirror?
The woman sees her image in the mirror the same way a fish moves.
The woman's view of her physical self growns more and mor negative.
All of the following lines are examples of how the mirror is personified, except...
"Most of the time I mediate on the opposite wall."
"Now I am a lake."
"Whatever I see I swallow immediately."
"I think it is part of my heart."
All of the following are wods used to describe the mirror, except...
Four-corned
Exact
Silver
Ornate
What is the most accurate meaning of the phrase "an agitation of hands"?
The woman is wringing her hands.
The woman is waving her hands,
The woman is clapping her hands.
None of the above.
What might it mean that the wall has "speckles"?
The mirror sees little details.
It is an old room or house.
The mirror is blurry.
It is a unique pattern.
The mirror says it is "not cruel, only _______."
Truthful
Lying
Faithful
Understanding
