#2 (RLT. a,b_RL2a, b,c) "All Summer in a Day" (12 SUMMAT 1 of 12
POSSIBLE POINTS: 1
Which detail from the text best supports that the children are eager to see the sun because they don't remember what the sun looks like?
a. "A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again."
O b. "All day yesterday they had read in class about the sun.
c. But then they always awoke to the tatting drum, the endless shaking down of clear bead necklaces upon the roof the walk, the gardens, the
forests"
d. "They were all nine years old, and if there had been a day, seven years ago, when the sun came out for an hour and showed its face to the
stunned world, they could not recall."

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. the imagery and word choice in the second stanza creates a tone of liveliness and joy danger and gloom silence and peace anger and hostility

Which theme do all rivers run to the sea and maus share?

What does water came out from a rock mean in this poem and why is it compared to the radio waltz? time was away and somewhere else. the waiter did not come, the clock forgot them and the radio waltz came out like water from a rock: time was away and somewhere else.