1) The tea was cold, the fire was dead;

What figurative language is this?


A)assonance
Eliminate

B)onomatopoeia

C)alliteration

D)internal rhyme

2) Which stylistic or literary device is used in the line:

‘Sick with a fear that had no form?

A)simile and metaphor
Eliminate

B)rhyme and alliteration

C)onomatopoeia and rhyme

D)rhythm and symbolism

3)In the first stanza of The Mill, the miller says to his wife, "There are no millers any more." What does this foreshadow?


A)the miller's later success as a business man
Eliminate

B)the miller's change of occupation

C)the miller's suicide by hanging

D)the miller and his wife's dinner conversation

1) A

2) D
3) and I don't know the story is " The Mill
Edwin Arlington Robinson

I guess 1 and 2 are right. The other choices for each of them surely are incorrect!

For 3, if the miller is saying there won't be any "millers anymore," what does the miller think he has to do?

C ? the millers suicide by hanging ?

I haven't read this, but is that what happened later in the story?

The miller's wife had waited long,

The tea was cold, the fire was dead;
And there might yet be nothing wrong
In how he went and what he said:
"There are no millers any more,"5
Was all that she had heard him say;
And he had lingered at the door
So long that it seemed yesterday.

Sick with a fear that had no form
She knew that she was there at last; 10
And in the mill there was a warm
And mealy fragrance of the past.
What else there was would only seem
To say again what he had meant;
And what was hanging from a beam15
Would not have heeded where she went.

And if she thought it followed her,
She may have reasoned in the dark
That one way of the few there were
Would hide her and would leave no mark: 20
Black water, smooth above the weir
Like starry velvet in the night,
Though ruffled once, would soon appear
The same as ever to the sight.

Or it could be D

It's not D.

Read everything again ... carefully. Also, are you clear on what "foreshadowing" means??
http://www.answers.com/foreshadowing

Eh I give up, I'm going to put B.

You're not reading carefully enough. Just reread these lines and tell me what you think.

And in the mill there was a warm
And mealy fragrance of the past.
What else there was would only seem
To say again what he had meant;
And what was hanging from a beam15
Would not have heeded where she went.

A then that's the only Choice I didn't answer, but Im still thinking .. C because "what was hanging from beam"

Yep ... the signal there is the word "hanging" ... the miller could see no future for himself, so this was how he solved his problem.