Unit 8: Explain the function of plot and structure. Quiz

Which statement about Jackson best explains the irony in the first sentence of the sixth paragraph ("He set . . . York")?

He is attempting to use technology to find a place his heart longs for

The poem is structured as which of the following?

A conversation

In context, the relationship between a "hatchet" (line 9) and a "pruning knife" (line 10) is most similar to that between

a slaughterer and a nurturer

The images used throughout the first stanza (lines 1-8) function collectively as an illustration of the

cyclical nature of life

Unlike the first two stanzas, the third stanza is composed of statements rather than questions, marking a turn from an

expression of individual modesty to the assertion of a truth about impermanence

The paradoxical assertion that the tree is "no mightier than the leaf" (line 18) suggests that the tree

will meet the same fate as the leaf