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Question 1

Read the excerpt from "The Ballad of Reading Gaol [Jail]” by Oscar Wilde.the very prison wallsSuddenly seemed to reel,And the sky above my head becameLike a casque [helmet] of scorching steel

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The speaker feels panicked.

Question 2

Which excerpt from "Going Back to School" adds to the theme that being unhappy in a particular situation can make one feel imprisoned?

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The boat ploughed on. Now Alcatraz was past And all the grey waves flamed to red again At the dead sun's last glimmer. Far and vast

Question 3

Read this excerpt from "Going Back to School."The sky was like a cup some rare wine fills, And stars came as he watched – and he was free One splendid instant – back in the great room, Curled in a chair with all of them beside And the whole world a rush of happy voices, With laughter beating in a clamorous tide. . . . Saw once again the heat of harvest fume Up to the empty sky in threads like glass, And ran, and was a part of what rejoices

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the sky

Question 4

Read the excerpt from "Parsley” by Rita Dove.pulls on his boots, he stomps toher room in the palace, the one without curtains, the one with a parrotin a brass ring. As he paces he wonders Who can I kill today. And for a moment the little knot of screamsis still. The parrot, who has traveledall the way from Australia in an ivory cage, is, coy as a widow, practising spring. Ever since the morning his mother collapsed in the kitchen while baking skull-shaped candies for the Day of the Dead, the generalhas hated sweets. He orders pastries brought up for the bird; they arrive

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the great distance the bird has come

Question 5

Which sentence contains hyperbole?

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My brother could eat all day long.

Question 6

Read the excerpt from "Parsley” by Rita Dove.to haunt us, and we cut it down. El Generalsearches for a word; he is all the worldthere is. Like a parrot imitating spring

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personification

Question 7

Which statement best expresses one theme of "Departure"?

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As each day unavoidably ends, often so does love.

Question 8

Read the excerpt from "Parsley” by Rita Dove. 1. The Cane FieldsThere is a parrot imitating springin the palace, its feathers parsley green. Out of the swamp the cane appearsto haunt us, and we cut it down. El General searches for a word; he is all the world there is. Like a parrot imitating spring,we lie down screaming as rain punches through and we come up green. We cannot speak an R—out of the swamp, the cane appearsand then the mountain we call in whispers Katalina.The children gnaw their teeth to arrowheads. There is a parrot imitating spring.El General has found his word: perejil.Who says it, lives. He laughs, teeth shining out of the swamp. The cane appearsin our dreams, lashed by wind and streaming. And we lie down. For every drop of blood there is a parrot imitating spring.Out of the swamp the cane appears.

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villanelle

Question 9

What is consonance?

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the repetition of consonant sounds in nearby words

Question 10

Read this excerpt from "Departure."as old bones, the pine treesstrangely red where the sun comes down.I cannot say if it our love,or the day, that is ending.Read this excerpt from "Going Back to School."And ran, and was a part of what rejoices In thunderous nights of rain; lay in the grass Sun-baked and tired, looking through a maze Of tiny stems into a new green world;

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Nature is often symbolic of different emotions experienced in life.

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