Read the excerpt from Anne Bradstreet's "Verses Upon the Burning of our House," then answer the question that follows. Under the
roof no guest shall sit, Nor at thy Table eat a bit. What is one common connotative meaning that the word roof evokes? A. hostility B. home C. fire D. God
Anne Bradstreet's poem "Verses Upon The Burning of our House" recalls the time when a fire burned down her house. But the main focus is not in the burning of the house but her dejection in losing her material things. She knows that it is against her Christian belief to think of material riches when there will be no poverty in heaven. In the particular line "<em>Under the roof no guest shall sit, Nor at thy Table eat a bit</em>", the roof connotes the sense of the homely feeling that a house provides. The word roof can only mean the home.
I believe that your correct answer to this question above would be "home".
The other option's dont seem to fit in with the word "evoke's". Evoke's mean's to "bring or recall something". So when you think of home, instead of think of a house, you think of a roof, something to keep you safe.
The excerpt given above is an example of heroic couplet. Heroic couplet is a traditional form of English poetry; it is typically used in epic and narrative poetry, it is made up of rhyming pair of lines in iambic parameters, that is, there are five ambic feet on each line.
