Mr. Melvina Collier MD
Feb 12, 2025
English 11 Help! Giving out points to the best answer!?
Read the following passage from "Paul's Case" by Willa Cather and answer questions 31–35.
When he awoke, it was three o’clock in the afternoon. He bounded up with a start; half of one of his precious days was already gone! He spent more than an hour dressing, carefully watching every stage of his routine in the mirror. Everything was quite perfect; he was exactly the kind of boy he had always wanted to be.
When he went downstairs, Paul took a carriage and drove up Fifth Avenue toward the Park. The snow had somewhat abated; carriages and tradesmen’s wagons were hurrying soundlessly to and fro in the winter twilight. Boys in woolen mufflers were shoveling off the doorsteps, and the avenue stages made fine spots of color against the white street. Here and there on the corners were stands with whole flower gardens blooming under glass cases, against which the snowflakes stuck and melted. Violets, roses, carnations, and lilies of the valley—somehow vastly more lovely and alluring because they blossomed thus unnaturally in the snow. The Park itself was a wonderful winter scene.
When he returned, the pause of twilight had ceased, and the tune of the streets had changed. The snow was falling faster, and lights streamed from the hotels that reared their dozen stories fearlessly into the storm, defying the raging Atlantic winds. A long, black stream of carriages poured down the avenue, intersected here and there by other streams moving horizontally. There were a score of cabs about the entrance of his hotel, and his driver had to wait. Boys in livery were running in and out of the awning stretched across the sidewalk, up and down the red velvet carpet laid from the door to the street. Above, around, and within it all was the rumble and roar, the hurry and bustle of thousands of human beings as eager for pleasure as he was, and on every side of him towered the glaring affirmation of the omnipotence of wealth.
The boy set his teeth and drew his shoulders together in a spasm of realization; the plot of all dramas, the text of all romances, the nerve-stuff of all sensations was whirling about him like the snowflakes.
From this passage, the reader can infer that Paul (1 point)
- has been to Fifth Avenue often.
- was too young to remember being on Fifth Avenue before.
- had dreamed of being on Fifth Avenue.
- none of the above.
Lines 13 and 14 offer an example of (1 point)
- allusion.
- alliteration.
- simile.
- onomatopoeia.
Lines 22–23 offer an example of (1 point)
- allusion.
- alliteration.
- simile.
- personification.
From this passage, the reader can infer that Paul values (1 point)
- winter more than summer.
- roses more than carnations.
- fantasy more than reality.
- work more than leisure.
Context clues suggest that "livery," in line 16, means (1 point)
- pajamas.
- saddles.
- grade school.
- distinctive clothing.
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