Select the correct answer. What effect does William Carlos Williams achieve by breaking up the words wheel barrow and rain water and placing them in separate stanzas,
and how does this effect contribute to the theme of the poem?
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
OA. The separate stanzas force readers to stop and consider the parts that make up each word, which reflects the theme that all
elements, however small or mundane, make up a greater whole.
ОВ. The separate stanzas force readers to stop and read each word carefully, which reflects the theme that all elements must be

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.