1.) "Good fences make good neighbours."

Question

Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
"Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.

Which theme does this excerpt from the poem "Mending Wall" express?

a.) Walls can serve to keep things out as well as keep things in.

b.) Walls are only used to keep animals in a confined area.

c.) Everyone agrees that walls are useful.

d.) All good neighbors agree with one another.

I chose A.

2.) The primary purpose of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth is

a.) To inform the readers that there is an environmental hazard in burning fossil fules.

b.) To entertain the readers with stories from his college days and his professor's quotations.

c.) To persuade the readers that by taking steps now they can help fight the damage done to the Earths's atmosphere

d.) To express the authors personal opnion about his feelings toward the beauty of Earth and his desire to stare it with his children.

I chose A

3.) In Frosts poem "Mending Wall" the lines "I see him there,/ Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top/ In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed" used which poetic device

a.) Simple
b.) Metaphor
c.) alliteration
d.) personification

I chose b

Answer 1

1. yes
2. no
3. no

Please check 3 for a possible typo.

Answer 2

3.) a is supposed to be simile.

Then 3 is c?

and 2 is c

Answer 3

2 is c.

3 is neither b nor c.

I've checked your answers twice. Now you're on your own.

Answer 4

Damn, Lily. How about the person learn this stuff in his or her own school, instead of asking for answers on a website. Ms. Sue is just trying to help. I'm pretty sure everybody comes here for just straight answers.

Answer 5

I know i do.

Answer 6

the answer is A (Simile)