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Blackberrying is written in
What is Free Verse
100
Where was Sylvia Plath Born?
Where is Boston, Massachusetts
100
Name one of the four main themes of the poem
What is Sublime, Consciousness/Life and Death, Nature and Journey
100
The dark, dense color of the blackberry is related to?
What is eyes of a person
200
The poem is structured with how many lines and stanzas
What is 3 stanzas with 9 lines
200
Who was Sylvia Plath's husband?
What is Ted Hughes
200
The blackberries when picked, represent life and death in what respect?
What is nature is also govern by cycles of life and death/ de-romanticizes nature
200
The genre of the poem
What is narrative
300
Find the use of assonance and alliteration in the poem
What is "Blackberries / Big as the ball of my thumb, and dumb as eyes / Ebon in the hedges. . ."
300
In 1982,Plath's collection of poems received which award?
What is the Pulitzer Prize for poetry
300
List four themes of Blackberrying
What is Sublime, Consciousness/Life and Death, Nature and Journey
300
Why does the author give the blackberries human characteristics?
What is interaction with them