Question

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The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words. You have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery: this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase. It is with blocks of just such arbitrary size and figure that the literary architect is condemned to design the palace of his art.

In a paragraph of five to eight sentences, identify the author's use of implicit, indirectly-stated comparisons in the examples in bold.

Answer 1

The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words. You have seen these blocks, dear to the nursery: \(\underline{\text{this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase}}\). It is with blocks of just such arbitrary size and figure that the literary architect is condemned to design the palace of his art.

Answer 2

Also "palace of is art" refers to a writer's written work. This is an indirect comparison as well, because it compares written work to palaces without using word like \(like\) or \(as\)..

Answer 3

@PaxPolaris this one a pillar, that a pediment, a third a window or a vase. What does this line mean though?

Answer 4

@Asevilla5 can you help?

Answer 5

"nursery blocks" directly compared to the words that the writer has to use, in order to construct his works.
"the palace of his art", indirectly compared to the beautiful construction of a piece of literature.
"blocks" directly compared to words.
"currency" indirectly comparing a form of barter between people to an interchange of words.
"move in a logical progression" indirect comparison to a parade that must take place in a linear and logical fashion.

Answer 6

Thank you so much

Answer 7

anytime.

Answer 8

Asevilla5 where do you see currency and move in a logical progression

Answer 9

@Asevilla5

Answer 10

weird I sware it was in there. I read the longer passage of this awhile back probably that's what got me. just use "blocks" and the rest above that sorry bout that

Answer 11

All good hahaaah

Answer 12

Which of the following contains a reference to the visual or seeing sense?

The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation.

… no inscrutable shadow, as in painting; no blank wall, as in architecture; but every word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph must move in a logical progression, and convey a definite conventional import.

… restore to them their primal energy, wittily shift them to another issue, or make of them a drum to rouse the passions.

The sister arts enjoy the use of a plastic and ductile material, like the modeller's clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words.


Can you check this out i said C. @Asevilla5

Answer 13

I meant B but i got it correct