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Contemporary Poetry: Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” Answers

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Read the excerpt from "Digging."The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slapOf soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edgeThrough living roots awaken in my head.But I’ve no spade to follow men like them.

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leisure time
B
city life
C
writing poems
D
hard work
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Which of these words has a negative connotation?

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respect
B
delight
C
jealousy
D
sympathy
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Read the excerpt from "Digging."Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests...

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The assonance connects the thumb and finger to the act of farming.
B
The assonance adds emphasis to the speaker’s past as a farmer.
C
The assonance creates a pleasing and interesting sound.
D
The assonance emphasizes that the speaker is writing about his father.

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