Emily Brontë & Christina Rosetti

Question 1

supreme power or authority

Answer 1

sovereignty

Question 2

certain; incontestable

Answer 2

undisputed

Question 3

tiresome; monotonous

Answer 3

tedious

Question 4

cunning; deviousness

Answer 4

guile

Question 5

favorable; beneficial

Answer 5

benignant

Question 6

comforting medicine

Answer 6

cordial

Question 7

a lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject, usually praising it, often elevated in style or manner and written in varied or irregular meter

Answer 7

ode

Question 8

became less able to see clearly

Answer 8

dimmed

Question 9

dry outer shell

Answer 9

husk

Question 10

wrecked; marred; infected

Answer 10

blighted

Question 11

What the speaker’s life is like in stanza 3 of “A Better Resurrection”

Answer 11

“like a broken bowl,
A broken bowl that cannot hold
One drop of water”

Question 12

the speaker’s spiritual and emotional state in stanza 1 of “A Better Resurrection”

Answer 12

She is “dimm’d with grief.” She does not see any “everlasting hills.” Her life is falling …

Question 13

A kind of ode to the imagination, Brontë extols the imagination, conveying all that it provides her in the face of life’s painful realities.

Answer 13

“To Imagination”

Question 14

positive element of hope in “A Better Resurrection”

Answer 14

“Yet rise it shall - the sap of Spring; O Jesus, rise in me.”

Question 15

a defense and a solace in the face of these realities

Answer 15

the imagination

Question 16

a simile in “A Better Resurrection”

Answer 16

“My heart within me like a stone

Is numb’d too much for hopes or fears.”

Question 17

Some painful realities Brontë acknowledges

Answer 17

“weary with the long day’s care”; “lost, ready to despair”; “guile, hate, doubt”; “danger, guilt, and darkness”

Question 18

The distinction in stanzas 4-5 of “To Imagination”

Answer 18

Reason & Truth/Imagination

Question 19

What the speaker’s life is like in stanza 2 of “A Better Resurrection”

Answer 19

like a faded leaf; her harvest is dwindled to a husk; no “bud nor greeness” can she see

Question 20

“I welcome thee,

Benignant Power …”

Answer 20

“Sure solacer of human cares,

And sweeter hope, when hope despairs!”