Which information most changes the reader's understanding of the poem?A.The oysters feel tired from walking too quickly.B.The walrus and the carpenter plan to eat the oysters.C.The sun and the moon do not seem to get along well.D.The characters are unhappy about the amount of sand.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail builds on the themes that a person's environment can shape his or her view of life and that people can bear difficult circumstances for a long time?adapted from Life in the Iron Millsby Rebecca Harding Davis     A cloudy day—do you know what that is in a town of iron works? The sky sank down before dawn—muddy, flat, and immovable; the air is thick—clammy with the breath of crowded human beings, and it stifles me. I open the front window and can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, and I can detect the scent through all the foul smells ranging loose in the air.     The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke as it rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron foundries and settles down in black, slimy pools on the muddy streets. Smoke on the wharves, smoke on the dingy boats, on the yellow river clinging in a coating of greasy soot to the house, the two faded poplars, the faces of the passerby—smoke everywhere! A dirty canary chirps desolately in a cage beside me; its dream of green fields and sunshine is a very old dream—almost worn out, I think.     From the back window, I can see a narrow brickyard sloping down to the riverside, where the river—dull and tawny-colored—drags itself sluggishly along, tired of the heavy weight of boats and barges. When I was a child, I used to fancy a look of weary, dumb appeal upon the face of the river, bearing its burden day after day. Something of the same idle notion comes to me today, when I look on the slow stream of human life creeping past, night and morning, to the great mills. Masses of men with dull, besotted faces bent to the ground, sharpened here and there by pain or cunning; skin and muscle and flesh begrimed with smoke and ashes; stooping all night over boiling cauldrons of metal; breathing from infancy to death an air saturated with grease and soot—vileness for soul and body. What do you make of a case like that, amateur psychologist? You call it an altogether serious thing to be alive: to these men it is a jest, a joke—horrible to angels perhaps, but to them commonplace enough.

The _____ of a poem contain context clues that let the reader know what the poem is about.purposesmain ideassupporting detailsthemes

• Content (What is the poem about? What does it describe? Keep to recount of the content)

eread these lines from the poem:Of why the sea is boiling hot And whether pigs have wings.Which best describes the tone of these lines?A.RomanticB.SeriousC.AbsurdD.Unhappy

Which line from the poem helps you picture the oysters?A.And all of us are fatB.Pepper and vinegar besidesC.Are very good indeedD.We can begin to feedSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS