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Read the passage below and answer the question: The factory whistle screamed at five, and Maren stepped...
Read the passage below and answer the question:
The factory whistle screamed at five, and Maren stepped into the morning like someone stepping into cold water. Her coat — heavy, sensible, the gray of overcast skies — had been her mother's, and she wore it the way another person might wear a name. The streetlamps were still burning, soft and patient, as if they had not been told the night was over. She walked the long way past the river, where the water was bright with the kind of brightness that follows a hard rain. A man on the bridge tipped his hat to her, kindly, and she nodded back, though she could not afterward remember his face. There was a poem in the air she did not know how to write — something to do with the bright, indifferent river and the soft, patient lamps and the coat that belonged to a woman who was no longer alive.
27.
The word "still" in "the streetlamps were still burning" can suggest both "continuing without interruption" and "motionless at the moment." A reader analyzing the passage would identify this effect as:
a.
Polysemy operating within a single carefully chosen word
b.
Apostrophe directed at the lamps themselves
c.
Simile comparing the lamps to a moment of silence
d.
Tonal dissonance operating across the entire scene
The factory whistle screamed at five, and Maren stepped into the morning like someone stepping into cold water. Her coat — heavy, sensible, the gray of overcast skies — had been her mother's, and she wore it the way another person might wear a name. The streetlamps were still burning, soft and patient, as if they had not been told the night was over. She walked the long way past the river, where the water was bright with the kind of brightness that follows a hard rain. A man on the bridge tipped his hat to her, kindly, and she nodded back, though she could not afterward remember his face. There was a poem in the air she did not know how to write — something to do with the bright, indifferent river and the soft, patient lamps and the coat that belonged to a woman who was no longer alive.
27.
The word "still" in "the streetlamps were still burning" can suggest both "continuing without interruption" and "motionless at the moment." A reader analyzing the passage would identify this effect as:
a.
Polysemy operating within a single carefully chosen word
b.
Apostrophe directed at the lamps themselves
c.
Simile comparing the lamps to a moment of silence
d.
Tonal dissonance operating across the entire scene