1 When he awoke, it was three o’clock in the afternoon. He bounded up with a start; half of one of 2his precious days gone already! He spent more than an hour in dressing, watching every stage of his 3toilet carefully in the mirror. Everything was quite perfect; he was exactly the kind of boy he had always 4wanted to be. 5 When he went downstairs Paul took a carriage and drove up Fifth Avenue toward the Park. The 6
snow had somewhat abated; carriages and tradesmen’s wagons were hurrying soundlessly to and fro 7in the winter twilight; boys in woolen mufflers were shoveling off the doorsteps; the avenue stages 8made fine spots of color against the white street. Here and there on the corners were stands, with 9whole flower gardens blooming under glass cases, against the sides of which the snowflakes stuck and 10melted; violets, roses, carnations, lilies of the valley—somehow vastly more lovely and alluring that 11they blossomed thus unnaturally in the snow. The Park itself was a wonderful stage winterpiece. 12 When he returned, the pause of the twilight had ceased and the tune of the streets had changed. 13The snow was falling faster, lights streamed from the hotels that reared their dozen stories fearlessly up 14into the storm, defying the raging Atlantic winds. A long, black stream of carriages poured down the 15avenue, intersected here and there by other streams, tending horizontally. There were a score of cabs 16about the entrance of his hotel, and his driver had to wait. Boys in livery were running in and out of 17the awning stretched across the sidewalk, up and down the red velvet carpet laid from the door to the 18street. Above, about, within it all was the rumble and roar, the hurry and toss of thousands of human 19beings as hot for pleasure as himself, and on every side of him towered the glaring affirmation of the 20omnipotence of wealth. 21 The boy set his teeth and drew his shoulders together in a spasm of realization; the plot of all 22dramas, the text of all romances, the nerve-stuff of all sensations was whirling about him like the 23snowflakes.
32. in lines 13-15 the authors language serves to. a. describe pauls mood b.create a clear image of the street scene c.build fear and doubt in the reader d. create a sense of calm in the reader
33. lines 22-23 offers an example of a.allusion b.alliteration c.simile d.personification
34. from the passage ,the reader can infer that paul values. a. winter more than summer b.roses more than carnations c. fantasy more than reality d. work more than leisure
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32. B i think
33. Simile because it uses like or as
34. Maybe a?
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