The following passages are the basis for the accompanying items. Read the passages, and select the best answer to each item.
POETRY: Passage 1 is "Upon the Heights" by Yone Noguchi, the first Japanese-born writer to publish poetry in English. Passage 2 is from "The Rubaiyat of
Omar Khayyam" by Edward Fitzgerald. It is a loose translation of a selection
of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian astronomer and poet who
lived from 1048 to 1131
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Passage 1 by Yone Noguchi
And victor of life and silence,
I stood upon the Heights; triumphant,
With upturned eyes, I stood,
And smiled unto the sun, and sang
A beautifully sad farewell unto the dying day.
And my thoughts and the eve gathered
Their serpentine mysteries around me,
My thoughts like alien breezes,
The eve like a fragrant legend.
My feeling was that I stood as one.
One way the poet adds drama to Passage 2 is by using:
A descriptive language to paint a detailed scene.
B. dialogue to show the back-and-forth between characters.
C. foreshadowing to hint at what will happen later in the poem.
D. extensive flashback to show how natural phenomena came to life.