but the awakening also has its roots in kate chopin's own life, especially her pursuit of solitude, independence, and an identity apart from her children – and apart from the men who always admired her. like edna pontellier, kate chopin knew "the outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions." from an early age, she developed both "a keen sense of humor," in her daughter's words, and "a rather sad nature," because of her many early losses.

–"a new biographical approach,"

emily toth

consider toth's view of the relationship between chopin's life and the awakening. what conclusions can you draw about chopin from the details in this passage? check the three best choices.

chopin based the awakening on events in her own life.

chopin's work was admired by men.

chopin's stories came only from her imagination.

chopin lived with conformity and sadness.

chopin used memories of her early losses in her fiction.

its a, d,e

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet