Read this excerpt from "Exhalation":Though I am long dead as you read this, explorer, I offer to you a valediction. Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.Which theme is best supported by the excerpt?A.Life is precious.B.The past is full of mistakes.C.Dreams should be pursued.D.The written word is temporary.

Read this excerpt from "Exhalation":You, I hope, found these sheets of copper and deciphered the words engraved on their surfaces. And whether or not your brain is impelled by the air that once impelled mine, through the act of reading my words, the patterns that form your thoughts become an imitation of the patterns that once formed mine. And in that way I live again, through you.Which theme is best supported by the excerpt?A.Death comes to all, so there's no use in fighting it.B.Stories add value to one's own life and to the universe.C.Immortality can be achieved in ways other than physical existence.D.History repeats itself, so learn from others' mistakes.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What idea is the narrator in "Exhalation" most clearly promoting to the reader?A.The power of memoriesB.The importance of seeing the beauty in mere existenceC.The value of time spent with familyD.The need to live life without time constraintsSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Four alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the text. Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows like harmony in music; there is a dark inscrutable workmanship that reconciles discordant elements, makes them cling together. In one society. How strange that all. The terrors, pains, and early miseries, regrets, vexations, lassitudes interfused within my mind, should e’er have borne a part, and that a needful part, in making up. The calm existence that is mine when I am worthy of myself! Praise to the end!According to the poet, one can be worthy of oneself only when one has experienced the terrors and the pains of life and has grown above them to achieve a state of calmness.The mind fuses the past and the present in such a way that the calmness the poet feels at the moment is in a way amnesiac of the past; it is only because of this forgetfulness of the terrors of the past that the poet can be calm in the present. Dust we are and unto dust we will return; in the meanwhile, one must undergo all the pains and travails of life in order to become a worthy human being-- only then can one achieve a praiseworthy end.All the discordant elements in the poet’s life have gone into making him what he is now, and the calmness that he feels in the present is only because of having experienced the terrors in the past; this is what has made him a worthy human being.

Resolutionby A. GautamThe new year begins on a set of old promises.I look at my list crumpled in my fist.A carefully torn page, inside my wishful cage—It is the same yellow as the year before,Twelve things that could change my life.I can see the cursive letters when I close my eyes.There my past remains, here my future lies.I resolve again, to give my old ambitions a refreshed try.17Select the correct answer. What is the best way to describe a theme of this poem? A. By the end of the year, it is too late to make any changes to a person's life. B. The failures of the past should inspire people to accomplish more in the future. C. People would accomplish their New Year's resolutions if they wrote them down. D. The main purpose of having New Year's resolutions is to make people feel bad.

Which phrase provides the BEST definition of theme in literature?a repeating element of plotthe author’s word choicethe author’s point of viewa story’s message about life