Information and IdeasHardQuotation supporting a claim about a poem's use of sound
Information and Ideas practice question
A critic argues that the poem uses the sounds of words to imitate the thing it describes.
Which quotation from the poem would best support the critic's claim?
- A. 'The stream slid slick and silver over stone, / hissing where it thinned across the shallows.'Correct
- B. 'The stream was cold and I did not go in.'
- C. 'We walked beside the water for an hour.'
- D. 'The map showed a stream, and there it was.'
Answer: A. 'The stream slid slick and silver over stone, / hissing where it thinned across the shallows.'
Hissing s-sounds imitate the water over stone.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. 'The stream was cold and I did not go in.'
- Plain statement, no sound effect.
- C. 'We walked beside the water for an hour.'
- Narration, no imitation.
- D. 'The map showed a stream, and there it was.'
- Plain statement.
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