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
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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
Through irony, poetry can better explore ____.
A. the relative status of different perspectives
B. the underlying resemblance of things in the world
C. the absolute differences within society
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