Study Hub for CXC English A & B

Instruction: Read the poem then answer the items on the basis of what is stated or implied. Thoughts What kind of thoughts now, do you carry In your travels day by day Are they bright and lofty visions, Or neglected, gone astray? Matters not how great in fancy, Or what deeds of skill you’ve wrought; Man, though high may be his station, Is no better than his thoughts. Catch your thoughts and hold them tightly, Let each one an honor be; Purge them, scourge them, burnish brightly, Then in love set each one free. Myra Viola Wilds                                                                         This poem is in the public domain. 1. Why does the poet ask the questions in the first stanza?         a. He is inquisitive and wants to know what we are thinking.         b. He is curious to find out how confused we might be.         c. He wants to have an idea about the quality of our thoughts.         d. He wants to find out if our thoughts have changed overti

      America       Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,       And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,       Stealing my breath of life, I will confess       I love this cultured hell that tests my youth. 5    Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,       Giving me strength erect against her hate,       Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.       Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,       I stand within her walls with not a shred 10  Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.       Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,       And see her might and granite wonders there,       Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,       Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.       By Claude McKay                                                                                             This poem is in the public domain. 1. The poem uses all of the following literary devices except     a. personification b. metaphor c. simile d. onomatopoeia