Information and IdeasHardEvidence for a claim about a poem's setting
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that a poem long assumed to describe an imaginary landscape in fact describes a real valley in Wales.
Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?
- A. The poem's sequence of a waterfall, a ruined chapel, and a bridge of three arches matches, in that order, the features a walker meets going up the Welsh valley, and the poet's letters place her there the summer before the poem was written.Correct
- B. The poem uses the word 'valley' several times.
- C. The poet enjoyed walking.
- D. Many poems of the period describe landscapes.
Answer: A. The poem's sequence of a waterfall, a ruined chapel, and a bridge of three arches matches, in that order, the features a walker meets going up the Welsh valley, and the poet's letters place her there the summer before the poem was written.
The features in order, and the poet's presence.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The poem uses the word 'valley' several times.
- Any valley has that word.
- C. The poet enjoyed walking.
- Walking does not fix a place.
- D. Many poems of the period describe landscapes.
- A generality.
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