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English Literature and Composition: Section I Time - 1 Hour Directions
English Literature and Composition: Section I Time - 1 Hour Directions
SECTION I
Time—1 hour
Directions: This section consists of selections from literary works and questions on their content, form, and style.
After reading each passage or poem, choose the best answer to each question and then fill in the corresponding circle
on the answer sheet.
Note: Pay particular attention to the requirements of questions that contain the words NOT, LEAST, or EXCEPT.
Questions 1-10. Read the following poem carefully 2. In lines 5-8 (“Why write . . . proceed?”), the
before you choose your answers. speaker most clearly implies that his poems
(A) have largely been published anonymously
Why is my verse so barren of new pride? (B) are notable for their imaginative use of nature
So far from variation or quick change? imagery
Why with the time do I not glance aside (C) explore themes that are timeless and
Line To new-found methods and to compounds strange? universal
5 Why write I still all one, ever the same, (D) have changed very gradually over the years
And keep invention in a noted weed, (E) are easily recognizable as his because of their
That every word doth almost tell my name, literary features
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O know, sweet love, I always write of you, 3. “Their” and “they” (line 8) refer to which of the
10 And you and love are still my argument; following?
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent: (A) “methods” (line 4)
For as the sun is daily new and old, (B) “invention” (line 6)
So is my love, still telling what is told. (C) “noted weed” (line 6)
(D) “every word” (line 7)
(1609) (E) “my name” (line 7)