SAT II success literature Episode 1 Part 9 pot

Choice B makes no sense in the context of the poem, so it can be eliminated.. There is no sense of someone who has been jilted by a lover, choice B, and although death is mentioned, the

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Questions 39–45 refer to the following poem Read the passage

carefully and then choose the best answer for each question

Spring

Line Nothing is so beautiful as Spring–

When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;

Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;

The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling

What is all this juice and all this joy?

A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning

In Eden’s garden.—Have, get, before it cloy

Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning, Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,

Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning

—Gerard Manley Hopkins

39 Which of the following indicate that

“Spring” is a Petrarchan sonnet?

I The rhyme scheme of the first eight

lines

II The theme is presented in the first

eight lines and the resolution in the

final lines

III The ending couplet

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and II

(E) II and III

40 The phrase “rinse and wring” (line 4) is a

reference to the action of (A) the ocean

(B) the spring rain

(C) a river

(D) washing clothes

(E) a thunderstorm

41 What figurative language is present in the

second line of the poem?

(A) Personification (B) Simile

(C) Metaphor (D) Onomatopoeia (E) Assonance

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42 What is the main idea of the poem?

(A) Spring is nature’s most beautiful

season

(B) It is hopeless to search for the

beautiful beginning of life in Eden

(C) Religious belief is crucial to people’s

well being

(D) Nothing is as beautiful as spring, but

the beauty of nature can sour the

innocence of people

(E) Spring can be marred by elements of

nature

43 Which of the following is evident in line 9?

(A) Personification

(B) Hyperbole

(C) Metaphor

(D) Parallel construction

(E) Conceit

44 All of the following are examples of images

of motion and movement in the poem EXCEPT

(A) “When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush” (line 2)

(B) “it strikes like lightnings” (line 5) (C) “they brush the descending blue” (lines 6 and 7)

(D) “the racing lambs too have fair their fling” (line 8)

(E) “Before it cloud” (line 12)

45 The tone of this poem is

(A) meditative and reverent

(B) moving and uplifting

(C) admiring and encouraging

(D) respectful yet admonishing

(E) mystical and lush

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Questions 46–53 refer to the following selection Read the passage

carefully and then choose the best answer for each question

Washington, 21 November, 1800

My Dear Child:

Line woods are all you see from Baltimore until you reach the city,* which is only so in name Here and there is a small cot, without a glass window, interspersed amongst the forests, through which you travel miles without seeing any human being In the city there are buildings enough, if they were compact and finished, to accommo-date Congress and those attached to it; but as they are, scattered as they are, I see no great comfort for them The river, which runs up to Alexandria, is in full view of my window, and I see the vessels as they pass and repass The house is upon a grand and superb scale, requiring about thirty servants to attend and keep the apartments in proper order, and perform the ordinary business of the house and stables; an establishment very well proportioned to the President’s salary The lighting of the apartments, from the kitchen to the parlors and chambers, is a tax indeed; and the fires we are obliged to keep to secure us from daily agues is another very cheering comfort To assist

us in this great castle, and render less attendance necessary, bells are wholly wanting, not one single one being hung through the whole house, and promises are all you can obtain This is so great an inconvenience, that I know not what to do, or how to do [I]f they will put me up some bells and let me have wood enough to keep fires, I design to be pleased I could content myself almost anywhere three months; but, surrounded with forests, can you believe that wood is not to be had because people cannot be found

to cut and cart it? You must keep all this to yourself, and when asked how I like it, say that I write you the situation is beautiful, which is true The house is made habitable, but there is not a single apartment finished If the twelve years, in which this place has been considered as the future seat of government, had been improved, as they would have been if in New England, very many of the present inconveniences would have been removed It is a beautiful spot, capable of every improvement, and the more I view it, the more I am delighted with it

—Abigail Adams

* Washington, D.C.

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46 What effect does the speaker’s point of

view have on the reader’s experience of

this selection?

(A) The first person singular point of

view conveys realism and a sense of

urgency to the reader

(B) The first person singular point of

view gives the reader the speaker’s

viewpoint and experience, unfiltered

(C) The first person plural point of view

brings the reader into the experience

as a partner

(D) The first person plural point of view

more fully engages the reader’s

attention

(E) The second person singular point of

view addresses the audience directly

47 Which of the following best describes the

tone of the letter?

(A) Carping, disillusioned

(B) Polite, informative

(C) Light, amusing

(D) Intimate, confiding

(E) Angry, resentful

48 Given the excerpt, which of the following

statements best summarizes Abigail

Adams’s message to her daughter?

(A) Washington, D.C is not much of a city

(B) I will never enjoy living in this cold,

unfinished mansion

(C) I feel very isolated living in this house

and in this city

(D) Please do not share this information

(E) There is much to do, but I am equal

to the task

49 The writer’s description of the White

House and the city of Washington, D.C., show them to be alike in that they are both

I unfinished, with little potential

II beautiful, but wanting improvement III undeveloped, uninhabited

(A) I only (B) II only (C) III only (D) I and II (E) I and III

50 Which of the following best describes the

writer’s method of organization in the letter?

(A) Linear (B) Developmental (C) Order of importance (D) Chronological (E) Spatial

51 In the clause “and the fires we are obliged

to keep to secure us from daily agues” (lines 14–15), what is the meaning of the word “agues”?

(A) Aches and pains (B) Coughing and sniffling (C) Chills and fever (D) Flu symptoms (E) Arthritis

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52 Which of the following is not true of this

passage?

(A) The selection uses elegant diction

(B) The vocabulary shows the writer to

be educated

(C) The language is descriptive

(D) The writer employs strong visual

images

(E) The sentence structure is abstruse

53 All of the following details are used to

create the impression of inconvenience in the new White House EXCEPT

(A) not enough servants

(B) too little wood

(C) difficult lighting

(D) not a single apartment finished (E) no bells whatsoever for ringing the servants

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Questions 54–60 refer to the following poem written in

eighteenth-century England Read the passage carefully and then choose the best answer for each question

Holy Thursday

Line Is this a holy thing to see,

In a rich and fruitful land?

Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurious hand

Is that trembling cry a song?

Can it be a song of joy?

And so many children poor?

It is a land of poverty!

And their sun does never shine, And their fields are bleak and bare, And their ways are filled with thorns;

It is eternal winter there

For where-e’er the sun does shine, And where-e’er the rain does fall, Babe can never hunger there, Nor poverty the mind appall

—William Blake

54 This poem is a(n)

(A) sonnet

(B) epic

(C) narrative

(D) ballad

(E) lyric

55 What is the poet’s purpose in writing the

poem?

(A) To explain an important religious holiday

(B) To validate the joys and sorrows of children

(C) To extol the wealth and prosperity of the England of the Industrial Revolu-tion

(D) To bring attention to the miserable conditions of the urban poor in industrial England

(E) To satirize the society of the period

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56 In the final stanza, what does Blake appeal

to in his readers?

I Their emotions

II Their faith

III Their reason

(A) I only

(B) II only

(C) III only

(D) I and III

(E) I, II, and III

57 What contrast does Blake establish in the

first two stanzas?

(A) A fruitful land and poor children

(B) England as a rich land and England as

an impoverished land

(C) A land that is dark and bleak and a

land where the sun shines

(D) Eternal winter and eternal summer

(E) A song of joy and a song of sorrow

58 What is the effect of the parallel structure

in lines 13 and 14?

(A) The lines introduce the conclusion

(B) They support the poet’s contention

that England is a rich land

(C) They make the poem seem musical

(D) They explain the title

(E) They reinforce the contrast between

the poverty and the ideal

59 Which of the following is present in the

poem?

I Alliteration

II Consonance III Assonance (A) I

(B) II (C) III (D) I and III (E) I, II, and III

60 In line 10, how do the b sounds and the

long e sounds reinforce the meaning?

(A) The harsh sounds suggest the sounds

of crying and sadness

(B) The coldness of the b’s and e’s

reinforces the coldness of winter (C) These sharp sounds mirror the thorns

(D) These cheerful sounds suggest a fruitful land

(E) The sonorous sounds of the letters imply a religious ritual

S T O P

If you finish before the hour is up, you may review your work on this test only You may not turn to any other test in this book

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ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS

Quick-Score Answers

1 A

2 D

3 C

4 A

5 B

6 C

7 B

8 A

9 C

10 A

11 B

12 C

13 D

14 A

15 D

16 D

17 B

18 E

19 D

20 B

21 C

22 B

23 C

24 B

25 D

26 E

27 C

28 B

29 E

30 B

31 D

32 A

33 C

34 E

35 B

36 E

37 C

38 B

39 D

40 D

41 E

42 D

43 D

44 E

45 A

46 B

47 D

48 E

49 B

50 D

51 C

52 E

53 A

54 E

55 D

56 E

57 B

58 E

59 E

60 A

EXPLANATIONS

Review Strategy

See A Quick Review of

Literary Terms, chapter 4.

1 The correct answer is (C) First, recall the definition of

personification—the attribution of human qualities to a nonhu-man or an inanimate object You can eliminate choices (A) and (E) immediately To call buds darling, choice (A), is not to give them a human attribute, but merely to describe them The eyes belong to men in line 13, so choice (E) is incorrect Choice (B) can be eliminated because a lease is not a human quality, although humans may have leases to things Choice (D), “na-ture’s changing course,” refers to alterations that occur in the nature, so no human qualities are involved, eliminating this answer “His gold complexion” in line 6, choice (C), extends the image in line 5 “too hot the eye of heaven,” which refers to the sun Both are examples of personification, making choice (C) the correct answer

2 The correct answer is (D) The beloved is “more lovely and

more temperate” than a summer’s day, thus making choice (A) contrary to what the speaker says Choice (C) also contradicts the speaker because he says his beloved will live on “in eternal lines.” Choice (E) is incorrect for the same reason Choice (B) makes no sense in the context of the poem, so it can be eliminated Choice (D) is supported by the last seven lines

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3 The correct answer is (C) While the speaker may enjoy

nature, the knowledge displayed is not that of a scientist, so choice (A) is not the correct answer Choices (B), (D), and (E) run counter to the essence of the poem The speaker is clearly a person admiring his loved one, choice (C) There is no sense of someone who has been jilted by a lover, choice (B), and

although death is mentioned, the poem does not support choice (D), a person facing death Choice (E) does not make sense in the context of the poem

4 The correct answer is (A) Choices (B) and (E) are distracters.

On a casual reading they have some of the words of the poem, but on a closer examination, they do not make sense in the context of the poem To the speaker, his beloved is more beautiful than the sun, or eye of heaven, so choice (C) cannot

be the correct answer Death is not mentioned until line eleven, making choice (D) incorrect because the question is about lines

1 through 8 only

Test-Taking Strategy

Test any definition by

substituting it into the

sentence Make sure it fits the

context of the surrounding

lines as well as the context of

the cited line in a poem or

cited sentence in a prose

passage.

5 The correct answer is (B) While choices (A) and (E) are

definitions of the word lease, they are not the correct

denota-tions for this poem Choice (D) does not make sense in the context of the poem Choice (C) is close, but the line means that summer, a period of time, choice (B), does not last

6 The correct answer is (C) Similes and metaphors compare

things, so neither choice (A) nor choice (B) is the correct answer An alliteration is technically a figure of sound or a musical device in which the initial consonant sound is repeated

in several words, so choice (D) is incorrect Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration that creates humor or emphasis, so choice (E) should be eliminated Death is given human qualities

in the poem, thus making choice (C) correct

7 The correct answer is (B) Choice (A), phantom, does not

make sense in the context of the sentence A phantom might wander, but it could not wander itself, so rule out choice (A) Shade does mean a secluded place, choice (C), especially used in

a literary sense, and can also mean choice (E), an area away from the sun, but both are too literal Choice (B), place of the dead, and choice (D), darkness, are both good possibilities, but choice (B) is the closer to the meaning of the line

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Go back and read the poem

or cited passage Don’t rely

on what you think it says.

8 The correct answer is (A) Remember you are being asked

only about the couplet, the concluding two lines A slightly different and incorrect version of choice (B) occurs earlier in the poem Choices (C), (D), and (E) are distracters and misreadings

of the poem

9 The correct answer is (C) For tiered or multistep questions,

you first have to decide which items are correct and then which answer choices contain those items Item I does not reflect the thesis, but items II and III do, so the only correct answer is choice (C)

When several answers seem

to be correct, one may be the

main idea, or theme, and the

others, supporting details.

10 The correct answer is (A) Choices (B), (C), and (D) are points

supporting the theme, choice (A) Choice (E) is a distracter

11 The correct answer is (B) The point of view of the selection

is first person Only choice (B) employs a first person pronoun, making it the only choice that illustrates the writer’s point of view

12 The correct answer is (C) Emerson advocates harmony with

nature; thus choice (A) is incorrect There is no indication of individuals in conflict, choice (B) Emerson does not write about people’s flaws, but rather their strengths, eliminating choice (D) The writer sees God as humans’ ally, so choice (E) is incorrect Strong support for choice (C) can be found in paragraph three

Read each question carefully.

If you miss an important

word like not or except, you

may choose a wrong answer.

13 The correct answer is (D) This question asks you to choose

the response that is NOT true Choice (A), analogy, is created in the discussion of a kernel of corn Metaphor, choice (B), is found in the comparison of society to a joint-stock company Emerson refers to such people as Pythagoras, Socrates, and Martin Luther, all historical figures, thus making choice (C) true and an incorrect answer Imagery, choice (E), can be found in phrases such as “Hearts vibrate to that iron string.” That leaves only choice (D), conceit, as not being present in the poem and the correct answer A conceit is an elaborate figure of speech in which two seemingly dissimilar things or situations are com-pared

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