The following text is from Countee Cullen’s 1922 poem “If You Should Go.”Love, leave me like the light,The gently passing day;We would not know, but for the night,When it has slipped away.So many hopes have fled,Have left me but the nameOf what they were. When love is dead,Go thou, beloved, the same.Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?To boast about the speaker’s success in loveeliminateTo recount fond memories of a past loveeliminateTo give love permission to leave eliminateTo plead with love to stay a little longer

Click to read "Sonnet 73," by William Shakespeare. Then answer the question.Which line(s) from the poem best develop(s) the author's theme that people should love and be loved while they're still alive?A.That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, / As the deathbed whereon it must expireB.In me thou seest the twilight of such dayC.That time of year thou mayst in me behold / When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hangD.To love that well which thou must leave ere long.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

What shall a man remember    In days when he is old,    And Life is a dying ember,    And Fame a story told?    Power, that came to leave him?    Wealth, to the wild waves blown?    Fame, that came to deceive him?    Ah, no! Sweet Love alone!    Honour, and Wealth, and Power    May all like dreams depart,    But Love is a fadeless flower    Whose roots are in the heart.8 Mark For Review8Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?A) Most of the first two stanzas ask related questions that are answered in part of the second and the third.B) The first stanza poses a question that is given several answers in the other stanzas.C) The first two stanzas pose questions that the final stanza answers while posing another question.D) The first and third stanzas make a claim that is supported by the second stanza.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail best supports the theme that people should enjoy the good times in life?excerpt adapted from Goodfellowshipby Li PoHast thou not beheld the Yellow RiverWhich flows from Heaven?It runs rapidly down and empties into the sea,Nevermore to return.Hast thou beheld the mirror in the hallThat reflects the grief of white hair?In the morning it is like black silk,In the evening it will be covered with snow.While we are in the mood of joy,Let us celebrate!Let not our lives be lonely,Let us waste not the moon!

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

Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "712" ("Because I could not stop for Death"):We slowly drove – He knew no hasteAnd I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility –What is one purpose of the personification in this excerpt?A.It presents death as having a sense of patient acceptance.B.It expresses a feeling of satisfaction on a life well lived.C.It links two unlike concepts: death and leisure.D.It makes the carriage seem like a friend to the speaker.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS