Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about tone
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the poem treats the abandoned factory with tenderness rather than disgust.
Which quotation from the poem would best support the critic's claim?
- A. 'Ivy has taken the loading bay the way a hand takes a hand; / the chimney leans as if to hear the birds.'Correct
- B. 'Broken glass and the stink of rust.'
- C. 'Nobody comes here now, and nobody should.'
- D. 'The gates were locked in 1982.'
Answer: A. 'Ivy has taken the loading bay the way a hand takes a hand; / the chimney leans as if to hear the birds.'
A hand taking a hand, a chimney leaning to listen: affection for the ruin.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'Broken glass and the stink of rust.'
- Disgust, not tenderness.
- C. 'Nobody comes here now, and nobody should.'
- Rejection, not tenderness.
- D. 'The gates were locked in 1982.'
- A plain fact.
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