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What do the stanzas in "A Psalm of Life" have in common?

A
They show the events of a narrative.
B
They show stages in a thought process.
C
They explain the different parts of a thing.
D
They display different sides of a problem.
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Read the lines from "A Psalm of Life." Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. The imagery in the lines suggests that

A
great deeds are remembered in history.
B
time is like an unending, perpetual desert.
C
each day is equivalent to a grain of sand.
D
time moves slowly and surely.
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Read the quotation from "A Psalm of Life." Let the dead past bury its dead! What is the effect of the repetition of the word “dead” in this line?

A
It suggests that the reader should think of mortality when thinking of the past.
B
It serves as a reminder that the past is comprised of the actions of people now deceased.
C
It reinforces the idea that one should live in the present, not in the past.
D
It creates a mood of foreboding, which affects the rest of the poem.
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Which best describes the tone that the first stanza of "A Psalm of Life" sets for the rest of the poem?

A
cheerful and lighthearted
B
gloomy and dark
C
hopeful and determined
D
cloudy and unclear

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