What effect does the figurative language in lines 17-18 have on the poem’s mood?
A.
These lines add another element of domesticity to the poem to contrast her grief.
B.
These lines emphasize the stillness of the house in contrast to the growth and movement of nature.
C.
The speaker describes the cloud as dark rising bread, suggesting an unfortunate omen on the horizon.
D.
The speaker describes the cloud as bread rising silently, implying a tragedy is about to happen in the present.
5) Throughout the poem, the speaker uses fire as a motif. What does this motif most likely represent in the poem?
A.
The speaker describes fire she sees in a dream, prompted by a memory from her childhood when her house burned down.
B.
Fire conveys the violence and trauma that marked the speaker’s childhood and that she is relieved to have escaped.
C.
Fire is both an element of destruction and rebirth, and it represents the passage of time, which creates and destroys as it goes.
D.
Fire represents the speaker’s all-consuming grief over the loss of her family, who perished in a fire.