THE CORRECT ANSWER IS (D).ALL THE RESPONSES TO THIS QUESTIONINCLUD...

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The correct answer is (D).

All the responses to this question

include elements from the poem, so you must truly understand

Go back to the work. Don’t

the poem and read the choices carefully. The question asks you

rely on what you think it

says. A minute saved in not

to find the two things that the poet sees as alike. Choices (A),

rereading the poem could

(B), and (C) are items—opposites—that would be contrasted

cost you a quarter point.

rather than compared. The poet sees the relationship of the

elements in choice (E) more as cause and effect than as similar.

Throughout the poem, the similarity of the Fall from grace and

the speaker’s desire for redemption, choice (D), are presented

both in words and through the shape.