–16 REFER TO THE FOLLOWING POEM. READ THE PASSAGECAREFULLY...
Questions 10–16
refer to the following poem. Read the passage
carefully and then choose the answers to the questions.
There’s a certain Slant of light
Line
There’s a certain Slant of light,
Winter Afternoons—
That oppresses, like the Heft
Of Cathedral Tunes—
5
Heavenly Hurt, it gives us—
We can find no scar,
But internal difference
Where the Meanings, are—
None may teach it—Any—
10
’Tis the Seal Despair—
An imperial affliction
Sent us of the Air—
When it comes, the Landscape listens—
Shadows—hold their breath—
15
When it goes, ‘tis like the Distance
On the look of Death—
—Emily Dickinson
10.
Which of the following is an example of
11.
Which of the following best describes the
personification?
mood set by the author in the first stanza?
(A)
“like the Heft/Of Cathedral Tunes—”
(A)
Gothic
(lines 3 and 4)
(B)
Depressing
(C)
Desolate
(B)
“Slant of light . . . That oppresses”
(D) Hopeless
(lines 1 and 3)
(E)
Informative
(C)
“None may teach it” (line 9)
(D) “Shadows—hold their breath—.”
12.
In the second stanza, the phrase “Heavenly
(line 14)
Hurt” (line 5) is an example of a(an)
(E)
“On the look of Death—” (line 16)
(A)
paradox.
(B)
allusion.
(C)
conceit.
(D) inversion.
➡(E)
personification.
PRACTICE TEST 5—
Continued
15.
The poem as a whole implies that there is
13.
Which of the following elements of style is
a connection between the weather and
not found in this poem?
(A)
Grammatical irregularities
(A)
depression.
(B)
Unconventional punctuation
(B)
mortality.
(C)
Eccentric capitalization
(C)
physical environment.
(D) health.
(D) Classical rhyme schemes
(E)
internal thoughts.
(E)
Figurative language
16.
What does the subject of the poem suggest
14.
What is the poet’s attitude toward the
subject, despair?
about the author?
I.
She is no stranger to depression.
I.
No one can be taught how to deal
II.
She sees a connection between
with it.
despair and an awareness of human
II.
It comes and goes of its own volition.
mortality.
III.
It comes from somewhere out there,
on high.
III.
She believes that winter is a depress-
ing time.
(A)
I only
(B)
II only
(C)
III only
(D) I and II
(E)
I, II, and III
(E)
II and III