In the poem “The Motive for Metaphor”, the use of metonymies highlights ____
A. the interconnection among all human beings
B. the close relationship between human beings and the natural world
C. the fragmentation of human experience
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In the poem “Disillusionment of Ten O’clock”, white night-gowns are a metonymic stand-in for ____.
A. a wild lifestyle
B. the respectable middle-class citizens who lead a conformist way of life
C. the upper-class citizens who dominate society
Verbal irony in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 serves the purpose of ____.
A. making a mockery of the already tired poetic tradition of fulsome praise for women
B. making fun of the speaker’s mistress
C. directly praising the beauty of the speaker’s mistress
The dramatic irony in William Blake’s “The Chimney Sweeper” helps to draw attention to ____.
A. Tom Dacre’s insightful observation of his own life
B. the anger expressed by the child-speaker of the poem
C. the ruthless exploitation of naïve children
The situational irony in the poem “Richard Cory” contradicts the reader’s expectation by ____.
A. highlighting the ugliness of life in a depraved world
B. showing how a seemingly glamorous person can in fact lose hope in life
C. revealing the true reason why the protagonist has killed himself