Craft… | SAT The Reading and Writing Section

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Mar 17, 2024

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The following text is adapted from Amy Lowell's 1912 poem "Summer." It is summer, glorious, deep-toned summer, The very crown of nature's changing year When all her surging life is at its full. To me alone it is a time of pause, A void and silent space between two worlds, When inspiration lags, and feeling sleeps, Gathering strength for efforts yet to come. As used in the text, what does the phrase "a void" most nearly mean?

Difficulty: Easy

A useless

An empty

A forgotten

An incomplete

The following text is adapted from Gwendolyn Bennett's 1926 poem "Street Lamps in Early Spring." Night wears a garment All velvet soft, all violet blue... And over her face she draws a veil As shimmering fine as floating dew... And here and there In the black of her hair The subtle hands of Night Move slowly with their gem-starred light. Which choice best describes the overall structure of the text?

Difficulty: Medium

It presents alternating descriptions of night in a rural area and in a city.

It sketches an image of nightfall, then an image of sunrise.

It makes an extended comparison of night to a human being.

It portrays how night changes from one season of the year to the next.

Novelist N. K. Jemisin declines to _______ the conventions of the science fiction genre in which she writes, and she has suggested that her readers appreciate her work precisely because of this willingness to thwart expectations and avoid formulaic plots and themes. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Difficulty: Medium

question

react to

perceive

conform to

Rydra Wong, the protagonist of Samuel R. Delany's 1966 novel Babel-17, is a poet, an occupation which, in Delany's work, is not ________: nearly a dozen of the characters that populate his novels are poets or writers. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Difficulty: Medium

infallible

atypical

lucrative

tedious

According to a US tax policy expert, state taxes are ________ other factors when considering an interstate move. Even significant differences in state taxation have almost no effect on most people's decisions, while differences in employment opportunities, housing availability, and climate are strong influences. Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

Difficulty: Hard

consistent with

representative of

overshadowed by

irrelevant to

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