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Take notice how the farmer

Rounds off a stack of hay. Lit Comp Question


The storm no opposition finds,
The wind no sharp delay.
A tender heart
in mail of grace
Invulnerably armed;
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What is the main idea of the passage?
The tempest by,
the patient hay
Inscrutable, unharmed.

A A farmer takes care of their crops with tenderness.

B Storms are a great menace to homesteads.

C With proper precaution, one can weather life’s storms.

D One must protect themselves in times of crisis.

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Lit Comp Exercises - 2022/2023 - Digital SAT Material 1 SCORE Test Prep & College Counseling - Author: Tyler LYnn
When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain, Lit Comp Question
Before high-pil’d books, in charactery,
Hold like rich garners the full ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
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What is the main idea of the passage?
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. A Man will never comprehend the mysteries of the universe

B Everything and everyone in the universe is fleeting.

C One must preserve their legacy through creation.

D True love will stand the test of time.

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Lit Comp Exercises - 2022/2023 - Digital SAT Material 2 SCORE Test Prep & College Counseling - Author: Tyler LYnn
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Lit Comp Question
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
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What is the main idea of the passage?
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing,
seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d,
till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.

A The speaker compares their soul to the vastness of space.

B A spider’s soul is a stable entity, unlike that of man.

C The speaker’s observations of a spider inspire them to reflect.

D The speaker hopes his soul finds connections.

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Lit Comp Exercises - 2022/2023 - Digital SAT Material 3 SCORE Test Prep & College Counseling - Author: Tyler LYnn
Nora: “I’ve been your little skylark, your doll, that you’ve petted
and humored and called by endearing names. I thought it was great Lit Comp Question
happiness while it lasted. But now I can see that I was living here like
a beggar, without knowing it. I was your doll child, just as at home
I was papa’s doll child; and here the children have been my dolls. I
thought it delightful when you played with me, just as they thought
it delightful when I played with them. I didn’t understand then that
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Based on the text, what can be assumed about Nora’s situation?
I was only a plaything, something for you to make use of. Now I do
understand it, and I can’t bear it.”

A She has been deceived by someone close to her.

B She is resentful of her children’s effect on her life.

C Her family does not respect personal boundaries.

D She has repeated the mistakes of her father.

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Lit Comp Exercises - 2022/2023 - Digital SAT Material 4 SCORE Test Prep & College Counseling - Author: Tyler LYnn
As soon as I sufficiently recovered my senses to comprehend the
terrific predicament in which I stood or rather hung, I exerted all the Lit Comp Question
power of my lungs to make that predicament known to the æronaut
overhead. But for a long time I exerted myself in vain. Either the
fool could not, or the villain would not perceive me. Meantime the
machine rapidly soared, while my strength even more rapidly failed.
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Based on the text, what can one infer about the speaker’s situation?
I was soon upon the point of resigning myself to my fate, and
dropping quietly into the sea, when my spirits were suddenly revived
by hearing a hollow voice from above, which seemed to be lazily
humming an opera air. Looking up, I perceived the Angel of the Odd.
He was leaning with his arms folded, over the rim of the car ; and
with a pipe in his mouth, at which he puffed leisurely, seemed to be
upon excellent terms with himself and the universe. I was too much A They are stranded on a barge drifting out to sea.

exhausted to speak, so I merely regarded him with an imploring air.

B They are exhausted to the point of hallucination.

C Their zeppelin has experienced mechanical complications.

D They have been condemned to execution by hanging.

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Lit Comp Exercises - 2022/2023 - Digital SAT Material 5 SCORE Test Prep & College Counseling - Author: Tyler LYnn

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