From “The Seed-Shop” by Muriel Stuart

Here in a quiet and dusty room they lie, Faded as crumbled stone or shifting sand, Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry— Meadows and gardens running through my hand.

Which of the following best describes the connotation of the meadows and gardens metaphor?

A) The metaphor is neutral and simply completes the image developed in the first three lines of the poem.

B) The metaphor is positive and starkly contrasts wit the description in the first three lines of the poem.

C) The metaphor is frightening and creates a jarring image that is completely disconnected from the earlier description.

D) The metaphor is negative and reveals that the speaker is confused or in conflict with her feelings about the seeds.

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret