Read the excerpt from "Digging." Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Read the haiku by Bashō. Clear water— a tiny crab crawling up my leg. Which statement best describes the similarities between the excerpt from "Digging” and the haiku?
Answer
A
Both explore the topic of farming.
B
Both use alliteration to connect ideas and create interesting sounds.
C
Both are disjointed by the sound devices used by the poets.
D
Both shift from the present time to the past.
Explanation
Both poems use sound to make the scene vivid. In “Digging,” the repeated hard sounds in “clean,” “rasping,” and “gravelly ground” echo the scrape of the spade. Bashō’s haiku also uses repeated sounds in “clear” and “crawling.” The poems do not both focus on farming, shift to the past, or become disjointed because of their sound devices.
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