Answer: Elderly people should live life fully despite the difficulties of old age.
Explanation:
The most common theme in this poem by William Carlos Williams is referring to aspects of old age. This poem is wrote with poetic and simple language while he was using many literary devices and caring about form and structure.
- The poet has represented old age and elder people trough symbolism of birds, trees, wind and more. His theme is focusing on that, that all people should live life fully and the difficulties in life should be always smaller than actual will for living. We can see the theme of the poem in the tittle too - ''To Waken an Old Lady''
Answer B and D are totally incorrect because they are translated and understood in a literary way although the poet is using many literary devices and symbolism.
Answer C is considering acceptance of poem's symbolism but it is not considering the main focus and theme of it which are the elder ones.
The correct answer to 19) is A: to inform.
The purpose of this article is to inform, that is, to explain and tell someone about particular facts; in this particular case, the authors informs about the discovery of a new unnamed island in the northern Pacific Ocean. This article seek to explain how volcanoes are formed and how important or relevant these volcanoes are to Earth.
The other options are not possible answers since the article does not include specific vocabulary or literary techniques that may influence the readers or make them think in a particular way. Moreover, the article is not written to entertain the readers since it only presents factual information for those who are interested in these kind of topics or who want to learn about this new discovery.
The correct answer to 20) is A: the author's purpose is to inform the reader about how a new Pacific island was formed.
As explained above, the author wants to share with the audience the discovery of a new unnamed island in the Pacific Ocean. The author presents explicit information about the island, such as location and dimension, and then he/she provides factual details about how volcanoes are formed and how these eruptions affect the Earth's surface and plates.
For this reason, the other options are not possible. The author does not present jokes nor expressions to make the readers laugh. Moreover, the author does not explain the uses people can make on this island and he does not describe the flora and fauna (plants and animals) that may live on this island.
He is paralleling the existence of Adam and Eve, particularly Adam, and references Lucifer, which was God's most favored angel, until he fell because he had tried to be better than God.
