Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence best shows that niels lyhne has a different view than some of the people in his hometown? adapted from niels lyhne by jens peter jacobsen jens peter jacobsen's "niels lyhne" was published in denmark in 1880. during this time period, social mobility increased, but there was still a large gap between social classes in terms of educational and economic opportunity. for about a year, niels lyhne had lived at lön-borggaard, managing the farm as well as he knew how. he had learned to know the joy found in purely physical labor. he found joy in seeing the pile growing under his hand and in being able to get through with what he was doing so that he really was through. he also knew that the work would stand and not be eaten up by doubt in the night or dispersed by criticism on the morning after. there were no sisyphus stones in agriculture. what joy it was, too, when he had worked till he was tired, to go to bed and gather strength in sleep and to spend it again, as regularly as day and night followed one upon the other. he was never hindered by the caprices of his brain and did not have to handle himself gingerly like a tuned guitar with loose pegs. he was really happy in a quiet way, and often he would sit, as his father had sat, on a stile or a boundary stone, staring out in a strange, vegetative trance. as yet he had not begun to seek the society of the neighboring families, except councillor skinnerup's in varde, whom he visited quite frequently. the skinnerups had come to town while his father was still living, and as the councillor was an old university friend of lyhne's, the two families had seen much of each other. skinnerup, a mild, baldheaded man with sharp features and kind eyes, was now a widower, but his house was more than filled by his four daughters, the eldest seventeen, the youngest twelve years old. the councillor had read much, and niels enjoyed a chat with him on various subjects. though niels had learned to use his hands, that, of course, did not turn him into a country bumpkin all at once. he was rather amused sometimes at the almost absurd care he had to exercise whenever the conversation turned to a comparison between danish and foreign literature. caution was absolutely necessary, however, for the mild-mannered councillor was one of the fierce patriots. he might grudgingly admit tht denmark was not the greatest of the world powers, but would not tolerate anyone saying anything that might place his country anywhere but in the lead.

Read the following excerpt from string by alice childress: maydelle. oh, look at you. if you had a nice suit perhapsnone of this would have happened. joe. l. v. got a nice suit, he got maybe forty nice suits andhe live in a pretty white house with a lawn in the front of it... but he cheatswhich statement best explains how the author uses symbolism in thisexcerpt? a. joe stands for the general turmoil that followed the years after thecivil rights act of 1964, which included riots and assassinations. b. with his combination of nice clothes and immoral behavior, l. v. represents the price some african americans paid in order toescape poverty. c. by describing l v.'s clothes in the same breath as his evilbehavior, joe points out that l. v. is only good on the outside, noton the insideod. the tension between joe and l. v. culminates in a physicalaltercation that is only broken up when the women in the playintervene.

Modernist poetry broke traditions in works that did all of the following except: question 1 options: a) experimented with language, symbolism, and imagery b) challenged rules about point of view, rhyme scheme, meter, and capitalization c) focused on the poem’s appearance on the page as a form of self-expression d) addressed subjects and ideas that had been explored in poetry for centuries. while mr. flood is not heroic in the typical sense and does nothing admirable during the poem’s action, robinson’s description of mr. flood is nevertheless filled with pathos, which a) the poem is filled with language and descriptions which arouse emotion, usually pity and sympathy, from the reader. b) the poem is filled with nonsensical events that make the reader laugh at mr. flood’s expense. c) the poem gives vivid sensory details that make the reader feel like they are a part of the story. d) the poem is tedious and drawn out with details that don’t influence the reader at all. refer to the william carlos williams poem "spring and all" (on pages 306-7 in your textbook), to answer the prompt below. your response should be 1-2 well-developed paragraphs and should include specific details (quotes) from the poem that support your analysis. cite your textual evidence as well. you should use your journeys book. because “spring and all” ends with language and imagery that suggest birth and growth, many readers consider it a hopeful poem that celebrates the first steps toward new life and away from a wintry world characterized by death and decay. consider the poem’s date of publication—1923—and the historical events that influenced many modern writers, specifically, world war i. poem below: by the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast-a cold wind. beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees all along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines- lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches- they enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. all about them the cold, familiar wind- now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf one by one objects are defined- it quickens: clarity, outline of leaf but now the stark dignity of entrance-still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken how might “spring and all” be interpreted as a reaction to the violence of world war 1? be sure to cite examples from the poem to support your analysis.

How does the poem’s mood and tone change in each of these stages? odes and elgies