Question

Read the excerpt from "Shakespeare's Sister and answer the question

Next I think that you may object that in all this I have made too much of the importance of material things.
Even allowing a generous margin for symbolism, that five hundred a year stands for the power to
contemplate, that a lock on the door means the power to think for oneself, still you may say that the mind
should rise above such things; and that great poets have often been poor men. Let me then quote to you
the words of your own Professor of Literature, who knows better than I do what goes to the making of a
poet. Sir Arthur Quiller-Coach writes: "The poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred
years, a dog's chance...a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave
to be emancipated into that intellectual freedom of which great writings are born." That is it. Intellectual
freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom.

In this excerpt, Woolf supports her argument by ____ and _.

Select all that apply.

anticipating an objection her audience might have

developing the idea of "a lock on the door" into an extended metaphor

exposing a romantic view of poverty as "great poets have often been poor"

making a counterargument

Answer 1

A. anticipating an objection her audience might have

D. making a counterargument

Step-by-step explanation:

Virginia Woolf suggested the fictional idea of Shakespeare having an equally gifted sister. Through this, she wanted to show what would happen to her career and would she become as famous as her brother, all of that in order to show that women hadn't had equal opportunities as men, since the Renaissance to the 19th century. She also states that, women's purpose, regarded by society, was to stay at home, be hosewives and take care of the children. That way they couldn't earn money and provide for themselves. That was another obstacle for their career.

Here, in this excrept, we see that Woolf emphasizes the importance of material things in order for one tobecome famous poet. Stating this, she understands that manybwould disagree and she anticipates a potential objection to this claim ("...still you may say that the mind

should rise above such things; and that great poets have often been poor men."). Soon after this, she counterclaims this objection, stating a quoted evidence by Sir Arthur Quiller-Coach, a Professor of Literature ("The poor poet has not in these days, nor has had for two hundred years, a dog's chance...") to support her argument.