Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim of envy
Information and Ideas practice question
A student claims that the poem's speaker envies the migrating birds she describes.
Which quotation from the poem would best support the student's claim?
- A. 'They go where the warm wind takes them, / and I, who cannot, count the days until they return.'Correct
- B. 'The starlings blacken the evening sky.'
- C. 'I scatter crumbs for them on the kitchen step.'
- D. 'Their song is thin and does not carry far.'
Answer: A. 'They go where the warm wind takes them, / and I, who cannot, count the days until they return.'
'I, who cannot' — the speaker sets her own confinement against the birds' freedom. That is envy.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The starlings blacken the evening sky.'
- A visual description with no feeling toward the birds.
- C. 'I scatter crumbs for them on the kitchen step.'
- Feeding the birds shows care, not envy.
- D. 'Their song is thin and does not carry far.'
- A mild criticism of their song, the opposite of envy.
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