Read the haiku.April's air stirs inwillow-leaves . . . a butterflyfloats and balancesNow, read Gabriel's analysis of the haiku.This haiku contains a kigo in addition to a motif.Which word from the haiku supports Gabriel's analysis?
  • April's
  • quiet
  • Purpose
  • a paraphrase
Read the excerpt from Bruno's summary of Gulliver's Travels.When Gulliver tours the academy, he sees a man attempting to get sunbeams out of cucumbers and a man trying to turn ice into gunpowder.This summary is an example of _____________________
  • a paraphrase
  • XXX gain perspective on a topic.
  • April's
  • Purpose
Read the passage from "An Essay on Man."Sedate and quiet the comparing lies,Formed but to check, deliberate, and advise.Self-love still stronger, as its objects nigh;Reason's at distance, and in prospect lie:From the context clues, the reader can determine that deliberate means to
  • XXX gain perspective on a topic.
  • XXX Nature is the original creator of melody.
  • XXX a name for the thing rather than a description of it
  • XXX show that Cupid is real.
Read the haiku.In silent mid-nightour old scarecrow topples down . . .weird hollow echoThe effect of the diction in this haiku is to create a
  • April's
  • foreboding tone.
  • bare
  • Purpose
Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement.Which excerpt from the passage is the best example of understatement?
  • XXX a name for the thing rather than a description of it
  • it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement
  • Swift uses a false premise to create humor.
  • XXX show that Cupid is real.
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