SAT Question ec03f090: Answer & Explanation

While researching a topic, a student has taken the following notes:

• A sestina is a thirty-nine-line poetic form.
• Each line of the poem ends with one of six end words, which alternate according to a set pattern.
• “Forage Sestina” is a sestina by Marilyn Hacker.
• Its end words are words, structure, wire, beam, wall, and room.
• “Towards Autumn” is a sestina by Marilyn Hacker.
• Its end words are daughter, friend, bread, mother, lover, and myself.

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Difficulty:Hard

The student wants to use one of the poems to illustrate the sestina form. Which choice most effectively uses relevant information from the notes to accomplish this goal?

Hacker employs the sestina, a poetic form with thirty-nine lines and six end words, in both “Forage Sestina” and “Towards Autumn.”

As a sestina, “Towards Autumn” contains thirty-nine lines and six end words—in this case, daughter, friend, bread, mother, lover, and myself—that alternate in a set pattern.

The thirty-nine-line sestina form uses the words daughter, friend, bread, mother, lover, and myself, which are found in the poem “Forage Sestina.”

Hacker has used the sestina form multiple times, as in “Towards Autumn,” which contains these six words: words, structure, wire, beam, wall, and room.

SAT Question ec03f090: Rhetorical Synthesis answer and explanation

Explanation

Why the other choices are wrong