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Part A

How does Dunbar’s word choice affect the tone of the poem?

He develops a relieved tone by describing ways he has learned to accept his fate in life.

He suggests a tone of resentment by comparing his misfortune with the happier fate of others.

He creates an inspired tone by contrasting depressing images with positive ones.

He sets a tone of desperation by describing things that he has lost in life.

Question 2
Part B

Which lines from the poem best support the answer to Part A?

"In a strain to soothe his bleeding heart, / And he smiled at the sound of my voice and lyre,"

"Of my mind so weary and sick and wild, / Of my heart too sad to sing."

"And I thought of myself so sad and lone, / And my life's cold winter that knew no spring;"

"My cot was down by a cypress grove, / And I sat by my window the whole night long,"

What poetic devices does shakespeare use in these lines? select all that apply. they are prose. they are blank verse. they are rhyming couplets they are in iambic pentameter.

Which statement would you identify as being correct? a. it is important to learn the etymology of every word in a text. b. it is important to understand the etymology of every word in a text. c. it is important to study the etymology of every word in a text. d. it is important to study the etymology of some words in a text.

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant