Plath's Life
Poem's Literary Devices
Poem's Imagery
100

This city is where Sylvia Plath was born?

What is Boston, Massachusetts?


100

What device is used in quote, "The light burns blue"?

What is Imagery? 

100

The speaker calls herself a "miner." What does this suggest?

What is searching deep inside?

200

Sylvia Plath married this famous poet?

Who is Ted Hughes?

200

In the poem, the candle "gulps" and "recovers." What device is used here?

What is personification? 

200

What color is the light described as?

What is blue?

300

Sylvia Plath attended this all girls college in Massachusetts?

What is Smith College? 

300

The poem contrasts "cold homicides" with "roses." What device is this?

What is juxtaposition? 

300

What do "waxy stalactites" and "tears" create?

What is a cold, dark image?

400

This is Sylvia Plath's most famous collection of poetry?

What is Ariel?

400

What device is used in "vice of knives"?

What is metaphor? 

400

What might "black bat airs" symbolize?

What is fear or darkness?

500

This collection of poems was created by Ted Hughes to combat Ariel?

What is Birthday Letters?

500
What freeing device is used in a poem lacking structure? 

What is free verse?

500

What does "vice of knives" suggest?

What is pain or danger?