Read the following passage from a drama:CURTIS Whooee! Those kids look like they can just run all day! As long as they can keep playin' with that hose, that's how long I can sit here on the porch and watch 'em.RALPH Yeah, but when we was playing with the hose on a hot day, we use to wonder at those old men rockin' away on the porch. Now we those old men! Ha ha!Which statement most accurately analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt?A.It conveys a sense of lighthearted nostalgia at the simple pleasures in life.B.It uses the porch to symbolize separation between the generations.C.It supports the backstory of Curtis and Ralph growing up together.D.It leaves readers with feelings of sadness at the inevitable passage of time.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following passage from a drama:CURTIS Just let it go, Ralph. He's a kid; he didn't know what he was doing. Didn't you ever do anything stupid when you was a kid?RALPH Probably the same kind of stunt Marvin woulda done if he was still here. Don't these kids ever learn? I guess not. I never did.Which statement most accurately analyzes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt?A.It conveys a sense of defeat in the face of impossible odds.B.It supports the backstory of Curtis and Ralph growing up together.C.It gives readers a tender feeling toward Ralph's expression of sympathy.D.It shows that forgiveness is possible even after a long time has passed.SUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Read the following passage from the funeral scene at the end of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby:A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing, and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. So did Gatsby's father. . . . The minister glanced several times at his watch, so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. But it wasn't any use. Nobody came.Which statement most accurately describes the aesthetic impact of the excerpt?A.The author evokes a feeling of suspense by making the group wait for others to arrive.B.The author creates a feeling of emptiness toward wealth and popularity.C.The author links the impatient minister to the godlessness of the wealthy.D.The author uses the cars to represent the corruption of the upper class.

The author's use of vivid imagery in the paragraph (3), such as "curl up in a ball and cry" and"jump up and down with joy", greatly affects the reader because _____

Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?The woman's arms are still thrown wide, and you realize she has not paused, that her voice alone has changed the air, and when she goes on, "Welcome to the Circus Tresaulti!" you applaud like your life depends on it, without knowing why.

Select the correct text in the passage.Which phrase best shows how the author introduces the idea that the old man has a hard life?(2) It is well known that the barrel-organ, like the violin, gets a fuller and more sympathetic tone the older it is. The old artist had an excellent instrument, not of the modern noisy type which imitates a whole orchestra with flutes and bells and beats of drums, but a melancholy old-fashioned barrel-organ which knew how to lend a dreamy mystery to the gayest allegretto, and in whose proudest tempo di Marcia there sounded an unmistakable undertone of resignation. And in the tenderer pieces of the repertoire, where the melody, muffled and staggering like a cracked old human voice, groped its way amongst the rusty pipes of the treble, then there was a trembling in the bass like suppressed sobs. Now and then the voice of the tired organ failed it completely, and then the old man would [regretfully] turn the handle during some bars of rest more touching in their eloquent silence than any music.