<span>maniac, madman, madwoman, imbecile, psychopath, psychotic; fool, idiot;eccentric; informalloony, nut, nutcase, nutjob, head case, psycho, moron, screwball, crackpot, fruitcake, fruit loop, <span>loon</span></span>
Based on the reading, the correct answer to your question is D. H<span>e wants Mary to feel sorry for him.</span>
Answer:
The correct answer is option b. These lines emphasize the stillness of the house in contrast to the growth and movement of nature.
Explanation:
In this poem we can see a person who goes to what was once her home but now only ashes remain. The speaker can still see what it was like before it was burned, she sees herself eating breakfast and can hear the loved ones she has lost.
There is a lot of pain in her words and by how she describes the house we can see that there is only silence and ruins. As everything continues to move around it, in the house she can only see the destroyed or melted objects and memories that are no longer there.
For this reason, we can say that the correct answer is option B.
where is the passage? upload it in the comments or something
First of all, it's really sad that we're teaching poetry with questions like this, because this question really sucks the life and beauty out of reading poetry.
A is your best answer. Obviously knowing the literal meaning of a word is an essential first step to understanding what's happening in a poem. It's hard to analyze a poem if you don't know what the words mean to begin with. Once you know those meanings, you can then move on to thinking about metaphorical or figurative (i.e., non-literal) meanings of the same word.
B is partially right, but it's not the best answer. Certainly knowing the literal meaning of a word CAN help you determine the narrator, but not all poems have narrators, and sometimes the literal meaning won't help you figure out who the narrator is (especially if the narrator is deliberately left unclear).
C and D are wrong, and as a general rule in multiple-choice questions you should be very suspicious of answer-choices that use extreme language (like "useless") or that completely shut down a possibility entirely (which happens in choice C).
