Answers26-27 Ignite English 12 NG KY-English Language Arts 12“Mutability” and “A Defence of Poetry” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Which statements best describe how "Mutability” reflects the idea in this excerpt? Select 2 options.

A
It is a poem about life and human nature.
B
It occurs at a particular time and place.
C
It uses images to express universal truths about life.
D
It contains a list of various facts that tell a story.
E
It provides examples of causes and effects in nature.
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artisansmusiciansinventorsteachers

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artisans
B
musicians
C
inventors
D
teachers
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Read the second stanza from "Mutability.”We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise.—One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away

A
They emphasize the idea that thoughts can have negative effects.
B
They illustrate the negative effects of not getting enough sleep.
C
They show that negative thoughts alone are able to destroy one’s life.
D
They suggest that human beings tend to be inherently negative.
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Read the second stanza from "Mutability.”Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

A
Like a lyre with strings that need to be tuned, humans will inevitably find reasons to disagree about things.
B
Like a lyre with strings that always make new sounds, humans respond uniquely to different experiences.
C
Like a lyre that has a fragile structure, humans are too delicate to survive in a harsh and unforgiving universe.
D
Like a lyre that is capable of always playing new music, humans will be remembered for their intense creativity.
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Read the passage from "Mutability.”We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost for ever:

A
emphasizes that although life is fleeting, it is exciting.
B
compares the spark of creativity to the enduring night sky.
C
introduces the idea that people are destined to live life in darkness.
D
explains that people are permanent, bright fixtures like the heavens.
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Read the second stanza from "Mutability.”Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last.

A
They emphasize differences.
B
They suggest disagreement.
C
They emphasize imagination.
D
They suggest a lack of control.
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Read the excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry.”A poem is the very image of life expressed in its eternal truth. There is this difference between a story and a poem, that a story is a catalogue of detached facts, which have no other connexion than time, place, circumstance, cause and effect; the other is the creation of actions according to the unchangeable forms of human nature, as existing in the mind of the Creator, which is itself the image of all other minds.

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factual.
B
timeless.
C
detached.
D
unrealistic.
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Read the excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry.”And this springs from the nature itself of language, which is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being, and is susceptible of more various and delicate combinations, than colour, form, or motion, and is more plastic and obedient to the control of that faculty of which it is the creation. For language is arbitrarily produced by the imagination and has relation to thoughts alone; but all other materials, instruments and conditions of art, have relations among each other, which limit and interpose between conception and expression.

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imagination.
B
education.
C
expressions.
D
passions.
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Read the passages."A Defence of Poetry”Poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind."Mutability”We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon;How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver,Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soonNight closes round, and they are lost for everHow does the first stanza of "Mutability” reflect the idea expressed in this excerpt from "A Defence of Poetry”?

A
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to make all things “immortal” by referring to images from nature that have existed for centuries.
B
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to send images “forth among mankind” by explaining in detail how this is accomplished.
C
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to “arrest the vanishing apparitions” of life by preserving an image of a fleeting moment in time.
D
It demonstrates poetry’s ability to portray all things as “beautiful” by taking an unpleasant image and depicting it as a lovely one.
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Read the fourth stanza from "Mutability.”It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

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No path is ever the same.
B
Time passes by very quickly.
C
Emotions are ever changing.
D
All people feel joy and sorrow.

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