25points as on all its sides a kitchen-match darts white flickering tongues before it bursts into flame: with the audience around her, quickened, hot, her dance begins to flicker in the dark room. 5 and all at once it is completely fire. one upward glance and she ignites her hair and, whirling faster and faster, fans her dress into passionate flames, till it becomes a furnace from which, like startled rattlesnakes, the long 10 naked arms uncoil, aroused and clicking. and then: as if the fire were too tight around her body, she takes and flings it out haughtily, with an imperious gesture, and watches: it lies raging on the floor, 15 still blazing up, and the flames refuse to die - till, moving with total confidence and a sweet exultant smile, she looks up finally and stamps it out with powerful small feet. what is compared in the first stanza? the dance and a kitchen match when it is first struck the dancer and a kitchen match when it is first struck the dancer and the brilliant flame of a kitchen match the audience and the heat from a lighted kitchen match what is the meaning of imperious as it is used in line 13? commanding assaultive compulsory insulting