The following text is from Susan Coolidge’s poem “Readjustment,” published in 1880. The word “tendance” means “care.”     After the earthquake shock or lightning dart    Comes a recoil of silence o'er the lands,    And then, with pulses hot and quivering hands,    Earth calls up courage to her mighty heart,    Plies every tender, compensating art,    Draws her green, flowery veil above the scar,    Fills the shrunk hollow, smooths the riven plain,    And with a century's tendance heals again    The seams and gashes which her fairness mar.    So we, when sudden woe like lightning sped,    Finds us and smites us in our guarded place,    After one brief, bewildered moment's space,    By the same heavenly instinct taught and led,    Adjust our lives to loss, make friends with pain,    Bind all our shattered hopes and bid them bloom again.7 Mark For Review7Which choice best describes the function of the underlined portion in the text as a whole?A) It emphasizes the speed at which the planet heals itself.B) It compares the beauty of the natural world to the human instinct.C) It explains the way in which people adjust to upheavals in their lives.D) It describes how the world eventually recovers from natural disasters.

Read the first two stanzas of this poem:Love leads me many times beneath the shadeOf ladies fair, whose necks are beauteous hills,And whiter far than flower of any grass;And one there cometh, clothed in robes of green,Who in my heart dwells, as strength dwells in rock,And among others seems as fairest lady.And when I glance upon this gentle lady,Whose brightness scatters every dusky shade,Her light so smites my heart it turns to rock;I roam, as strangled, all among the hills,Till I revive and am with love more greenThan ever yet was spring or freshest grass.This excerpt is an example of what type of poem?A.SestinaB.SonnetC.BalladD.Haiku

9The following text is from Susan Coolidge’s poem “Hope and I.” In this poem, the speaker portrays “hope” as a living being.    Hope stood one morning by the way,    And stretched her fair right hand to me,    And softly whispered, "For this day    I'll company with thee."    "Ah, no, dear Hope," I sighing said;    "Oft have you joined me in the morn,    But when the evening came, you fled    And left me all forlorn.    "'Tis better I should walk alone    Than have your company awhile,    And then to lose it, and go on    For weary mile on mile,"    She turned, rebuked. I went my way,    But sad the sunshine seemed, and chill;    I missed her, missed her all the day,    And O, I miss her still.9 Mark For Review9According to the text, why does the speaker refuse Hope’s company? A) She believes that hope without reason is never justified. B) In the past she suffered when she had, and then lost, hope.C) It is better to have hope in the morning than in the evening.D) Hope will eventually make the speaker weary as she walks.

The following text is from the 1915 poem “Serepta Mason” by Edgar Lee Masters, from a book of poems that describes the lives of the townspeople in the fictional town Spoon River.My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sidesSave for a bitter wind which stunted my petalsOn the side of me which you in the village could see.From the dust I lift a voice of protest:My flowering side you never saw!Ye living ones, ye are fools indeedWho do not know the ways of the windAnd the unseen forcesThat govern the processes of life.Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To refute the idea that the speaker’s life was full of hardship and paineliminateTo lament about the many difficulties incurred by a natural disastereliminateTo rail against the lack of care the speaker felt from the village regarding her many hardshipseliminateTo describe the misfortunes that occurred in the speaker’s garden

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Choose the poem that uses trochaic meter.Once more we hear the wordThat sickened earth of old:"No law except the SwordUnsheathed and uncontrolled."Why so pale and wan fond lover?Prithee why so pale?Will, when looking well can't move her,Looking ill prevail?From