Question

Read the following stanza from Audre Lorde's poem "Hanging Fire" and answer the question.

I am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me
the boy I cannot live without
still sucks his thumb
in secret
how come my knees are
always so ashy
what if I die
before morning
and momma's in the bedroom
with the door closed.


While Lorde uses alliteration and assonance to create patterns of sound, she _____.

A. does use the Elizabethan sonnet form
B. doesn't use imagery
C. does use blank verse
D. doesn't use a formal rhyme scheme

Answer 1

D

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

While Lorde uses alliteration and assonance to create patterns of sound, she D. doesn't use a formal rhyme scheme.
A is incorrect because this is a form of free verse, which is nothing like the Elizabethan sonnet form. B is incorrect because she does use imagery, meaning that she describes the scene so that we can vividly imagine what is going on. C is incorrect because she doesn't use blank verse - Shakespeare used it in his poems, so take a look at those to see what it looks like.