Correct Answer: A. the Faithful Penitent

Correct Answer: B. way the characters are revealed to the reader

Correct Answer: D. status and emotion of the speakers

Correct Answer: A. male ascendancy

Explanation

Marvell employs several images to express his love to his mistress and his overwhelming desire to consummate their love. His use of the pair of allusions - the "Indian Ganges", and the "Tide of Humber" - sets the tone. In reference to these images, Marvell asserts that not even the geographical distance that may come between them can dampen his love for his mistress. These images are appropriately followed by the metaphor of "my vegetable love" which "will grow vaster than empires". What Marvell suggests here is that his love, like a plant, has the faculty of growth that does not diminish.

Other images then follow involving hyperbolical references to the number of years it will take him to adore the various parts of his mistress's body.

But as the poem continues, Marvell abandons the earlier images and brings in the notion that his love for his mistress is bound by time. Thus we have images of the "winged chariots", "deserts of vast eternity" which suggest the ravages of time which both lovers cannot escape. Indeed, the image of "the grave's a fine and private place / But none I think do there embrace" heightens the catastrophe which awaits the lovers if they do not embrace.

As the poem ends, fresh images are introduced. These involve "fire", "predatory birds" and "rough strife", suggesting that there is no time but now to consummate their love and have control over their fate rather than succumb to it. This is perfectly captured in the image of the sun which the lovers "will make....run".

Explanation

An African thunderstorm is a highly descriptive poem about the ravages caused by a typical storm.

The two aspects of the storm — its characteristics and its effects — are clearly brought out. In respect of its characteristics, the storm, as a natural phenomenon, is presented as destructive and fearsome. The wind that blows in its wake "tosses up things in its tails/like a madman chasing nothing" "or like a plague of locusts". .

The above two similes emphasize the chaos that is caused. The impression formed is that of some brute force tha: is being unleashed. There is a sense of the foreboding as the "pregnant clouds" gather to "perch on hills". Hell appears to break loose as nothing is spared in the wind's trail. As the accompanying thunder is unleashed and the storm's effects diminish, this is felt in the onomatopoeia words "tremble", "rumble", "crack" and "pelting".

The storm's effects on its surroundings are also conveyed in words that appeal to the senses. "Screams of delighted children" contrast with the frenzied movement of women carrying their babies on their backs upon sensing danger. Their clothes are torn apart, "exposing dangling breasts". Not spared, even, are the trees which "bend" to let it pass.

Correct Answer: B. wealth and capitalism

Correct Answer: A. allegory

Correct Answer: A. oxymoron

Explanation

Oxymoron is a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions. These contradictions seem foolish but, when we think about them a bit, often turn out to be sharp observations about our world.

Correct Answer: A. not part of the main play