Read the following extracts and answer the questions that follow:
“But I can get a hair-dye
And set such colour there,
Brown, or black, or carrot,
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my yellow hair.”
1. Who does "I" stand for?
(i) The poet
(ii) The young men
(iii) God
(iv) Anne Gregory
2. Why does she want to change the colour of her hairs?
(i) To make her lover love her for her external beauty of her hair.
(ii) To make her lover love her for herself and not for her external beauty.
(iii) To make her lover love her for hairs of different colours.
(iv) To make her lover love her for her hairs only and not for her external beauty.
3. Name the poetic device used in line 3.
(i) Imagery
(ii) Metaphor
(iii) Alliteration
(iv) Personification
4. What does the speaker want?
(i) She should be loved for being herself and not for her external beauty.
(ii) She should be loved for being beautiful and for her external beauty.
(iii) She should be loved for being ugly and for her external beauty.
(iv) She should be loved for being tall and for her external beauty.
4. What does "despair" mean?
(i) Angry
(ii) Hopeless
(iii) Stupid
(iv) Handsome