Unit quiz: Craft and evidence: close reading, form, setting, and the defensible claim

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Question 1

An examiner asks for evidence that Kent’s character is defined by his conduct rather than by reputation. Which answer is strongest?He speaks plainly after Lear threatens him with death, and the scene records his banishment as the priceHe has the longest speech in the scene, which shows the depth of his loyalty

Question 2

A student writes that Sonnet 73 proves the speaker is old. Which revision follows the lesson’s standard?The poem names the speaker’s age in the couplet, so no inference is requiredThe poem gives seasons, twilight and ashes rather than an age, so age is a licensed inference from images

Question 3

A contributor claims the Rime’s water stanza is written in strict common metre, 8.6.8.6. What correction is required?The stanza runs to four stresses and seven syllables in the odd lines and three stresses and six syllables in the even lines, so it is loose ballad measureThe stanza alternates five-beat lines, which also produces eight and six syllables

Question 4

A draft calls the Coketown paragraph an unqualified indictment of industrial towns. Which single sentence most complicates that claim?The sentence describing the piston as working like the head of an elephant in melancholy madnessThe sentence setting off against the town’s conditions the comforts of life that spread all over the world

Question 5

A reader asserts that the rose in chapter I represents Hester’s child. What is the decisive objection?No passage in these chapters connects the rose to Hester or her child, and nothing could disconfirm the claimFlowers cannot function as symbols in a novel that treats them literally

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