No thank you, John

Question 1

cartharsis

Answer 1

where a person is relieved of unhealthy emotions

Question 2

caesura

Answer 2

creates dramatic emphasis

“I have no heart? -Perhaps I have not”

Question 3

written

Answer 3

1860

published 62

Question 4

asserts

Answer 4

woman’s rights and independence

man not given a voice

Question 5

rhyme scheme

Answer 5

A
B
A
B

Question 6

manners

Answer 6

she seems to be mocking his manners

“with always “do” and “pray”?”

Question 7

repetition

Answer 7

of the fact that she doesn’t love him

“you know I never loved you”

Question 8

ghost

Answer 8

“a face as wan” “ghost”

pale, ghostly- unwanted presence, haunting her

Question 9

working class

Answer 9

“Meg or Moll”

working class girls shorten their names- suggests she is superior to them

Question 10

marriage

Answer 10

she belittes marriage by saying it’s a “task”

Question 11

superiority to men

Answer 11

“use your own common sense”

she’s speaking down to him

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

“I’d rather answer “No” to fifty Johns”

asserts the woman’s right to say “no” and claim independence

Question 13

friendship

Answer 13

“strike hands as hearty friends”

Question 14

reasserting

Answer 14

“but love -/ No thank you, John”

pauses reinforces last line

direct

Question 15

john

Answer 15

thought to be John Brett, pre-Raphaelite artist

often painted nature, infused with moral and religious significance

Question 16

Simon Avery

Answer 16

she “asserts the right to say ‘no’”

she also changes the power dynamic between the genders, by highlighting his flawed argument

Question 17

it is hard not

Answer 17

to admire the women who resists the unwelcome suitor

her verbal dexterity outwits and humiliates the persistent suitor

Question 18

her “No” to fifty Johns

Answer 18

might not just be against John but against marriage itself, perhaps reflecting Rossetti’s feelings