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From “The Ecchoing Green” by William Blake

The Sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the Spring.
The sky-lark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells’ cheerful sound.
While our sports shall be seen
On the Ecchoing Green.
Till the little ones weary
No more can be merry.
The sun does descend,
And our sports have an end. . . .

Use the excerpt to answer the question.
1. Which is the best paraphrase of the lines from the poem?

A. We are happy when the sun is shining. We feel merry when the bells ring, and we sing along. The sun goes down and we have to stop playing sports.

B. The sun brightens the sky and bells are ringing. Birds sing along with the bell. We play outside until we are tired and go home at the end of the day.

C. When the sun shines, the skies are happy. The birds drown out the sound of the bell. We watch sports all day.

D. The sun comes up. The birds sing all day. We wish we could be outside playing sports all day.

from “Aermath”
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When the summer fields are mown,
When the birds are fledged and flown,
And the dry leaves strew the path;
With the falling of the snow,
With the cawing of the crow,
Once again the fields we mow
And gather in the aermath.

Use the excerpt to answer the question.

2. What conclusion can be drawn about the poem?

A. Life is returning to the world after a long winter.

B. Summer days are over, and a harsh winter is setting in.

C. The fields are getting harder to mow because of the birds living there.

D. Everyone is looking forward to the coziness of winter.

3. Which of the following lines contains the best example of onomatopoeia?
A. She glowed like a candle on a cold, clear night.
B. The child made a wish on the evening star.
C. The buzz saw sputtered and droned.
D. The tiger came closer—and closer—and closer.

4. Which of the following lines contains the best example of alliteration?
A. Down he dove into the dreary, dismal dungeon.
B. He forgot to tie his shoes.
C. A blue moon loomed in a darker blue sky.
D. He went in the tent and met a friend.

5. Which of the following is an example of personification?
A. The dog barked louder than a thunderstorm.
B. The thunder roared like a lion in a rage.
C. The bus driver turned the corner abruptly.
D. The clouds cried in sorrow.

6. Which best describes rhythm in poetry?
A. a beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables

B. the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words

C. the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words

D. the use of words that imitate sounds

7. What is a concrete poem?
A. a poem that provides concrete images as opposed to abstract ideas
B. a poem that uses a strict pattern of rhyme and rhythm
C. a poem that is arranged in a visual image that suggests its subject
D. a poem that has only three lines

8. In what situation might you write a comparison-and-contrast essay?
A. to help readers decide between two choices
B. to reflect on an exciting experience you had
C. to explain to readers how a process works
D. to break a large idea into simple parts

9. Identify the independent clause in the following sentence.

Before electric lighting was invented, people used candles to light their homes at night.

A. Before electric lighting was invented
B. people used
C. people used candles to light their homes at night
D. to light their homes at night


10. Which of the following sentences uses correct end punctuation?
A. Give me your unwanted shoes?
B. Did you see the glassblower.
C. Run for your life.
D. Those waves are awesome!

[1] The tasks of television meteorologists involve much more than standing in front of cameras and
forecasting the weather. [2] These professionals must collect and digest vast amounts of data, or
information, sent to the studio from several sources, including data from weather satellites high above
Earth. [3] They take this highly technical data and translate it into intelligible language that viewers can understand and use in their daily lives.

Use the selection to answer the question.

11. Using the context clues in sentence 3, what is the most likely meaning of the word intelligible?
A. technical
B. neutral
C. understandable
D. clever

1.B
2.D
3.D
4.C
5.B
6.A
7.A
8.C
9.D
10.D
11.C
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Answer 1

(B) The sun brightens the sky and bells are ringing. Birds sing along with the bell. We play outside until we are tired and go home at the end of the day.

The Echoing Green is a three-stanza poem. Poet talks about the beauty that comes in the framework of life enjoyment that’s showcased through the children playing in the gardens as a character, “Old John,” views, but the melancholy is subtly administered within the form of a whisper of how fleeting enthusiastic zeal can be. Moreover, Blake uses that simplistic concept of play—or lack thereof—that’s occurring on “the Echoing Green” to express the fleeting quality of life in general.


Answer 2.

(B) Summer days are over, and a harsh winter is setting in.

From that perspective, the purpose of this final stanza changes to surround that idea. The point that their “sports have to end” displays a description of having to move behind the fun of childhood so much that “sport no more be seen.” That last quote, too, supports this theory of moving into adulthood reliability since the narrator doesn’t consider a time when the play can recommence. By the word choice, it’s just over as age advances and death approaches. Much like a day has a dawn and a dusk, so does life, and this stanza clearly regards that the “descending” is taking place.


Answer 3.

(C) The buzz saw sputtered and droned.

The term onomatopoeia comes from the combination of two Greek words, Onoma indicating "name" and topoeia intending "to make," so onomatopoeia literally means "to make a name (or sound)." That is to say that the word signifies nothing extra than the sound it makes. The term "buzz," for example, is just a sound effect, but one that is quite helpful in making drama or storytelling more expressive and strong.


Answer 4.

(A ) Down he dove into the dreary, dismal dungeon.

In writing, alliteration is the noticeable replication of same beginning consonant sounds in successive or similarly associated syllables within a collection of words, even those spelt differently. As a process of connecting words for impact, alliteration is also called head rhyme or original rhyme.


Answer 5.

(D) The clouds cried in sorrow.

Personification is the process of giving inhuman characteristics to humans or attributing the things that they are not capable of doing. As a result to this definition, the poet in the line is attributing human characteristic to clouds, we all know that only human can cry over events but things.


Answer 6.

(A) A beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables.

A syllable is a component of the arrangement for a series of speech sounds—the use of both vowels and consonants generates a rhythmic punctuation, the parts of which are called "syllables." Syllabic structure arises from a system in where consonants and vowels vary from each other in the process of the temporary form: consonants are of short continuance while vowels can be of long continuation and are presented with some force.


Answer 7.

(C) A poem that is arranged in a visual image that suggests its subject.

Concrete poetry is an ordering of linguistic components in which the typographical outcome is more significant in communicating meaning than verbal significance. It is sometimes pointed to as visual poetry, a word that has now developed a clear meaning of its own. As such, concrete poetry associates more to the visual than to the verbal arts and there is a significant overlap in the set of product to which it applies.


Answer 8.

(A) To help readers decide between two choices

Compare and contrast is always done between two objects or two variables. Where one’s qualities and lacking are compared with the other in order to know the outcome. Likewise both the objects are being differentiated so that one gets an idea how the one is different from the other.


Answer 9.

(C) People used candles to light their homes at night

An independent clause is a clause that can hold by itself as a single sentence. An independent clause includes a subject and a verb and makes an understanding with a different word. Independent clauses can be combined by using a semicolon or by using a comma supported by a coordinating conjunction.


Answer 10.

(D) Those waves are awesome!

The exclamation mark or exclamation point is a punctuation sign normally used following an interjection or exclamation to symbolise powerful feelings or high sound or to display importance, and often indicates the end of a sentence. An exclamation mark can be applied to close subjects that are meant to communicate intense emotions.


Answer 11.

(C) Understandable.

As per the context the word "intelligible" expresses the level of simplifying the complex data by translating it and making it simple for the viewer/readers to understand it in their daily life. In order words making the technical data covert into lay man's language.


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