Is there a plot to the poem, or an atmosphere that is evoked?
What will be an ideal response?
- The poem begins with Z, for Zenith: whether that zenith is construed as a Platonic or Wordsworthian prenatal ideal state, or simply as the happiest moment of one’s life, it’s all downhill after that, life portrayed as an elevator in free fall that ends with Corpse and Bone and A for Anything, representing whatever unknown state of being or nonexistence that comes after death. The atmosphere that is evoked is relentlessly negative and depressing: organ transplants are “in vain,” and even quiet is not peace or serenity, but the hush “[t]hat falls on a neighborhood after a riot.” Interestingly, verse is not given a negative description, but is simply named: perhaps its miseries and frustrations are too well known to require comment.
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Rodolfo es el amigo con ____________ viajé a Europa.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
When you as a reader reflect upon what you read and you think about the integrity of the ideas in the text, you are reading for
a. literal comprehension. b. interpretive comprehension. c. critical comprehension. d. social context.
Fill in the letter of the word that best fits in each sentence. Use each letter only once
a. animosity e. crusade i. escort m. prevalent b. attribute f. dilapidated j. feasible n. surplus c. bizarre g. distortk. initiateo. taunt d. compressh. endorse l. lurep. venture The college's plan for cutting expenses is _____ , and I think it will work.
After ten years, the people could no longer stand the restrictions of the __________
government, and they rebelled. a. paranoid b. totalitarian c. impervious d. foremost