–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