Correct Answer: B. climax

Correct Answer: A. quatrain

Correct Answer: D. free verse

Correct Answer: A. inversion

Correct Answer: A. exits

Correct Answer: A. a mime

Explanation

Gold plays a very important role in the development of Silas Marner's personality. Gold, in the novel, may be understood as a general term for money, The terms may therefore be used interchangeably. The theft of the bag of money by William Dane at the death of the deacon provides Dane the opportunity to break up t'e engagement between Silas and Sarah.

The theft also leads to the casting of lots. The lots declare Silas as the culprit. This leads Marner to leave Lantern Yard and settle at Raveloe. His heart is full of bitterness and his faith in man and God shattered.

At Raveloe, he puts all his strength and mind into his weaving, and gold (money) starts trickling in. The gold accumulates and becomes his passion. He now finds a new companion in his gold. This contributes to his further alienation from the society. Henceforth, his only contact with the society is reduced to buying the few necessities he needs for his weaving and food. He thus becomes a complete hermit with his gold providing the only companionship he needs. He then becomes more mechanical and less human. This continues until he loses his gold.

The loss of his gold now provides the first occasion for him to really interact with people. Many of the superstitions people attach to him disappear. He begins to attract the sympathy of others. -The process of his re-integration into the society comes with the coming of Eppie who, in the mind of Silas Marner, has mme to replace his gold. In fact the lost gold provides the strongest motive for keeping Eppie.

It is significant to note that Eppie has yellow or golden hair and Marner takes her to be his gold that has returned. In Eppie, Marner now has a companion.

When eighteen years later the gold is rediscovered, it now has a better use. It seems as if the gold goes away and comes back when Marner has better use for it. The gold, from this perspective, takes on a mysterious outlook in conformity with Marner's own mysterious life as it often does in fairy tales.

It can therefore be said that gold has multiple roles in the novel. It serves as an instrument of Marner's separation tom the society and of his re-integration into the society. It also provides an atmosphere of mystery.

Correct Answer: A. frightening

Correct Answer: D. threnody

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".