1.4.3 apex english 11 b

What literary device is most clearly used in this passage? (In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo).

Allusion.

Which best describes the speaker's tone in this passage? (He only says, good fences make good neighbors. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder if I could put a notion in his head: Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it where there are cows? But here there are no cows.)

He is skeptical about his neighbor's idea of what makes good neighbors.

What literary device is most clearly used in this passage? (After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, after the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor-.)

Imagery.

Which aspect of this poem most clearly marks it as a work of Modernism? (Visible, invisible a fluctuating charm an amber-tinctured amethyst inhabits it, your arm approaches and it opens and it closes; you had meant to catch it and it quivers; you abandon your intent.)

It focuses on the jellyfish as a single, specific image.

Which best describes the effect of the metaphor on the overall meaning in this excerpt? (There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across and eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, Good fences make good neighbors.)

It gives apple trees the qualities of grazing animals to emphasize that the wall is unnecessary.

What aspect of this excerpt most clearly marks it as a work of Modernism? (Such a fresh breeze blowing and such a green day with no threats in it. But he had not come, just the same. What does a woman do when she has put on the white veil and set out the white cake for a man and he doesn't come? She tried to remember. No, I swear he never harmed me but in that. He never harmed me but in that...and what if he did?)

It reflects the betrayal of trust in a cherished ideal.

Is the underlined commentary in the excerpt effective? (Ralph Waldo Emerson also uses hyperbole to convery his feelings about the American Revolution and thus deepen the meaning of his poems. His "Concord Hymn," for instance, begins, "By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April's breeze unfurled, / Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world." Specifically, Emerson is describing the first battles of the Revolutionary War, the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which took place in April 1775.)

No, because the commentary does not explain how the quote demonstrates Emerson's use of hyperbole.

Which rhetorical technique does it best exemplify? (Some of the owner men were kind because they hated what they had to do, and some of them were angry because they hated to be cruel, and some of them were cold because they had long ago found that one could not be an owner unless one were cold.)

Parallelism.

Which best describes how the diction supports the tone of this passage? (There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit and children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange and coroners must fill in the certificates-died of malnutrition-because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.)

The words "crime" and "denunciation" reveal the author's outrage toward the wasting of food.

What is one purpose of the symbolism used in this passage? (Let us go then, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table; Let us go; through certain half-deserted streets, the muttering retreats of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument of insidious intent.)

To portray an urban setting as a place of loneliness and isolation.