Read the excerpt from "Autumn" by Jean Starr Untermeyer.
Autumn and dead leaves burning in the sharp air. And winter comforts coming in like a pageant. I shall not forget them:— Great jars laden with the raw green of pickles,Standing in a solemn row across the back of the porch
What is the meaning of the word "pageant" in this context?
answer
parade
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Read "Grass" by Carl Sandburg.
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work— I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
Which statement best describes the speaker of the poem?
answer
The speaker is the grass that is determined to grow over the earth.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"
shall we have
it.
Based on context, what is the most likely definition for "triviality"?
answer
Insignificance
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
When they become so derivative as to become unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand
Based on context, what is the most likely definition for "derivative"?
answer
Unoriginal
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
nor is it valid
to discriminate against "business documents and
school-books"; all these phenomena are important. One must make
a distinction
however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the
result is not poetry,
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"
shall we have
it.
What theme does this excerpt express?
answer
Poetry is genuine when it reflects truth and reality.
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Which statement best describes the effect of the free-verse form in "Poetry"?
answer
It helps the reader experience the poet's thought process.
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Read the excerpt from "A Day for Wandering" by Clinton Scollard.
Where interwoven branches spread a shade
Of soft cool beryl like the evening seas
Unruffled by the breeze.
Which is the best evidence from the poem that "beryl" means "green"?
answer
like the evening seas
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Which lines from "Poetry" best indicate that the poet believes that poetry should express authentic thoughts, feelings, and ideas?
answer
nor till the poets among us can be
"literalists of
the imagination"—above
insolence and triviality and can present
for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them,"
shall we have
it.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond
all this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
discovers in
it after all, a place for the genuine.
Hands that can grasp, eyes
that can dilate, hair that can rise
if it must, these things are important not because a
high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because
they are
useful.
What theme does this excerpt best express?
answer
Poetry is interesting when it is authentic.
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Which statement best describes the theme of "A Day for Wandering"?
answer
The country is better than the city because it is more beautiful.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
In the meantime, if you demand on the one hand,
the raw material of poetry in
all its rawness and
that which is on the other hand
genuine, you are interested in poetry.
What is the theme of this excerpt?
answer
Poetry should convey truthful content and emotion.
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Which words from "A Day for Wandering" best indicate that the speaker is happy to be outside?
answer
harmonic, confidant, and content
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Read the excerpt from "Birches" by Robert Frost.
When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the line of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do that. Often you must have seen them
Loaded with ice a sunny winter morning
After a rain. They click upon themselves
As the breeze rises, and turn many-colored
As the stir cracks and crazes their enamel.
Soon the sun's warmth makes them shed crystal shells
Shattering and avalanching on the snow-crust—
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away
You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
What is the best description of the theme of this excerpt?
answer
The sun has a wondrous effect on icy birch branches.
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Read the excerpt from "Poetry."
When they become so derivative as to become
unintelligible,
the same thing may be said for all of us, that we
do not admire what
we cannot understand: the bat
holding on upside down or in quest of something to
eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless
wolf under
a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse
that feels a flea, the base-
ball fan, the statistician—
What theme does this excerpt express?
answer
People do not like what they cannot understand.
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