House Guest / Elizabeth Bishop

Test Practice

Analyze Literary Elements

With a partner, discuss how to answer these questions about the selection.

1. Why is the seamstress without hope?
a. Her dreams were destroyed.
b. She has no money and no family.
c. She was fated to live a life of misery.
d. Nobody cares about her.


What is the correct answer to the question above? How did the information you gathered during reading help you eliminate incorrect answers?

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