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Which statement best expresses a theme of "First Love" by Judith Ortiz Cofer?

A. Love can blind us to our own faults.

B. Love cannot sustain a person.

C. Love can be complicated.

D. Love makes people do foolish things.

Answer 1

@SmokeyBrown

Answer 2

Mm, I suppose C or D would make the most sense. The narrator isn't blind to her faults and is actually very critical of herself. Throughout the story, the narrator's love is a very important sustaining factor and motivation.
Although, I guess the narrator didn't really "do" anything foolish. Throughout the story she's more of a passive observer. I guess C, love can be complicated, would be the best answer

Answer 3

Which quotation from "First Love" by Judith Ortiz Cofer best refines the theme that love does not come easily to everyone?


A. “…I had, of course, in the great tradition of tragic romance, chosen to love a boy who was totally out of my reach.”

B. “My secret love sat across the room from me looking supremely bored.”

C. “…as we stood chanting our farewells in Latin, he looked straight across the room and into my eyes!”

D. “I believed myself still invisible to him in ‘nothing’ status as I looked upon my beloved.”

Answer 4

A most clearly illustrates the author's difficulties with regard to love, describing the object of her feelings as "totally out of my reach"

Answer 5

Recalling her first teenage crush in "First Love," Judith Ortiz Cofer writes that "every nerve in my body was involved in this salute to life."

How does the colorful figure of speech in this sentence affect the text?

A. It emphasizes that her first experience of love made Judith feel a new surge of energy and hope.

B. It implies that Judith had never felt true joy before the night of her first kiss.

C. It suggests that Judith had overestimated the importance of the boy who kissed her.

D. It demonstrates that the experience of love inspired Judith Ortiz Cofer to become a writer.

Answer 6

Mm, I think A would be the choice for this one, since the feelings of the author at that point could best be described as "energy and hope"

Answer 7

How does the author’s decision to use her own memories as the exposition in “First Love” affect the text?


A. It allows her to relate her state of mind at age 14 and, thereby, lay the foundation for the events and conflict that follows.


B. It provides a personal perspective that keeps the text from becoming too analytical or boring.


C. It illustrates her idea that a person’s first romantic relationship often serves as a pattern that later romantic relationships will also follow.


D. It builds suspense because the reader wonders how this experience led to the author’s later attitudes about love and relationships.

Answer 8

I'd like to say A for this one, but if I'm being perfectly honest, I'm not exactly sure what the question is asking

Answer 9

Read this excerpt from the story "First Love" by Judith Ortiz Cofer:

Later, much later, after what seemed like an eternity of dragging the weight of unrequited love around with me, I learned to make myself visible and to relish the little battles required to win the greatest prize of all.

Which statement best explains Cofer's choice to use the phrase "relish the little battles" in her narrative?

A. She is illustrating how harsh love can be.

B. She is developing a sense of the conflict she felt for the reader.

C. She is creating a metaphor to convey the idea that love is hard won.

D. She is pointing out that the problems created by love are small.

Answer 10

I think C, since referring to love in terms of "little battles" implies some form of challenge

Answer 11

Read the poem.

excerpt from "Annabel Lee"
by Edgar Allan Poe

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her high-born kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.



The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me—

Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

Part A

What is the main idea of this part of the poem?

A. The sea killed Annabel Lee because it wanted to punish the speaker.

B. Annabel Lee and the speaker loved the sea because it was cold.

C. Annabel Lee's kinsmen took her from the speaker because she was highborn.

D. Annabel Lee died because the angels were jealous of her and the speaker.

Part B

Which lines from the poem best support the answer in Part A?


A. "So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,"


B. "A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;"


C. "To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea."


D. "The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—"

Answer 12

I'm going to go with D, for both of them

Answer 13

Read the poem.

excerpt from “Annabel Lee”
by Edgar Allan Poe

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:—

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee,
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;—
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

How does Poe refine the idea in the poem "Annabel Lee" that others may be jealous of true love?

A. The speaker describes how Annabel Lee's only thought was "to love and be loved by" him.

B. The speaker describes how, even now, he lies down by his beloved in her "sepulchre there by the sea."

C. The speaker describes how heavenly beings "coveted" and "went envying" the love he and Annabel Lee shared.

D. The speaker describes how Annabel Lee's "high-born kinsman came / And bore her away" after her death.

Answer 14

Oh yeah, definitely C, that's the only option that relates to jealousy

Answer 15

Read the poem.

excerpt from "The Raven"
by Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—

Only this, and nothing more."



Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow

From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—

Nameless here for evermore.



And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating

"'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—

This it is, and nothing more."



Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,

"Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,

That I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door;——

Darkness there and nothing more.



Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;

But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,

And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"—

Merely this, and nothing more.



Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,

Soon I heard again a tapping somewhat louder than before.

"Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice;

Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore—

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—

'Tis the wind and nothing more!"



Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,

In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;

Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;

But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Which lines are most effective in creating suspense in this poem?


A. "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;"


B. "From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— / For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—"

C. "Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, / And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."


D. "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, / And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,"

Answer 16

@SmokeyBrown

Answer 17

I'd like to say D, since the rhythm and rhyme scheme seems to press urgently onward, creating a tense atmosphere. I could be wrong though, this question seems kind of subjective