CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 2023/2024

In this passage the metaphor in "Astride of a grave and a difficult birth" suggests which of the following? - Answer-Birth is the beginning of death. Life is a struggle which ends in death. Reddening on a high branch Right at the very top And the fruit-pickers Have overlooked it - Answer-when left unadulterated, the results are enhanced Just as the hyacinth - Answer-dactylic trimeter dactylic trimeter - Answer-the line is composed of a stressed syllable followed by two light syllables and has three metric feet The word "ghastly" conveys which of the following ideas? - Answer-The empty (bald) street in the rain seems pale and ghostly. It seems to him horrible that the day should come to life again when the one he is writing of cannot do so. As used by the narrator, the phrase "meanly" can be construed to mean which of the following? - Answer-low in value "Sonnet 18," by William Shakespeare The poem is concerned primarily with the - Answer-eternal nature of love Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimmed; - Answer-personification Which of the following most closely explains the use of "fruit" and "tide"? - Answer- To contrast well-known natural processes with the modern world The expression "electric dawn and dusk" functions as a(n) - Answer-symbol of humanity's tampering with nature. What differentiates the two worlds of time? - Answer-People experience full life in one but copy life in the other. The phrase "like a rose in a book" is an example of - Answer-simile simile - Answer-this phrase compares two distinctly different things using the word "like." What is the effect of the change from first person plural voice to first person singular voice? - Answer-To contrast the speaker's appreciation of nature to the lack of appreciation of nature by most people The speaker's tone in this poem can best be described as - Answer-admonitory Prose is not poetry - Answer-Prose is what we write and speak most of the time in our everyday intercourse: unmetered, unrhymed language. Prose may be fiction or nonfiction - Answer-A novel (short story) is fiction. An autobiography is non-fiction. Satire - Answer-a manifestation of authorial attitude (tone) and purpose.