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Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings, midsummer’s leaves race to extinction like the roarof a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses;they seethe toward autumn’s fire—it is in their nature,being men as well as leaves, to die for the sun.

A
The speaker thinks that the riot was a mistake.
B
The speaker thinks that the riot was somewhat inevitable.
C
The speaker thinks that the riot should have happened in the fall.
D
The speaker thinks that the riot was entirely preventable.
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Which quotation from Derek Walcott’s Midsummer contains an allusion?

A
With the stampeding hiss
B
race to extinction like the roar
C
the branches bending
D
in the alleys of Brixton
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A person’s way of thinking about and seeing a situation is a(n)

A
allusion.
B
narration.
C
attitude.
D
perspective.
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Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.Praise had bled my lines white of any more anger,and snow had inducted me into white fellowships,

A
age
B
gender
C
race
D
location

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