Literature Subject Test
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ARCO
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50. The correct answer is (C). The first, third, and fifth stanzas use a rhythm that is smooth and flowing;
the second and fourth stanzas use a rhythm that is staccato—sharp and articulated, and in them the
author says that someone believes the men were meant to drill and die. The change in tempo is used
to suggest men drilling or marching.
51. The correct answer is (B). Why not a flag of pastel yellow and blue? Why not a flag with a dove on it?
Because those colors do not suggest something heroic or glorious, and the dove is a symbol of peace, not
war. The poet here selects a symbol that would inspire devotion and colors that would excite the pas-
sions. The choice of symbol and colors heightens the ironic contrast in the fourth stanza.
52. The correct answer is (A). The parallelism between the second and fourth stanzas has already been
discussed. The booming drums are supposed to inspire the same mindless devotion that the blazing
flag inspires.
53. The correct answer is (B). Notice the use of the imperative voice in the lines in question: “Point for
them the virtue of slaughter,/Make plain to them the excellence of killing.” The poet apparently has in
mind a particular group of individuals, and they must be the people in authority.
54. The correct answer is (A). In the first paragraph, the author uses the metaphor of a book. All of
humanity is like a book with many chapters. A chapter is an individual person. Pursuing the meta-
phor, the author states than when a person dies, the chapter is not destroyed; rather, it is translated.
Thus, translation refers to death. And, according to the author, translation or death can be accom-
plished in different ways: by age, sickness, war, and justice. What would be death by justice? It must
surely refer to death by execution for some crime.
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