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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:
A useless
B:
An empty
C:
A forgotten
D:
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
A:
It presents alternating descriptions of night in a rural area and in a city.
B:
It sketches an image of nightfall, then an image of sunrise.
C:
It makes an extended comparison of night to a human being.
D:
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
A:
question
B:
react to
C:
perceive
D:
conform to
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