Sunday Morning Early - STAAR Poem

22. Which words best help the reader understand the meaning of the word russet in line 8?

• F blue-black water

• G boats, grasses

• H gold, sunburnt

• J empty blue sky

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23. By using this analogy, the poet emphasizes —

• A the speaker’s authority as a parent

• B the importance of spending time with family

• C the speaker’s emotional vulnerability

• D the sacredness of nature

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24. The poet uses these lines to emphasize the importance of —

• F truth

• G listening

• H power

• J imagination

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25. Which line best explains why the speaker begins to speak at the end of the poem but then stops?

• A A clap of thunder beyond those hills.

• B it hits me that my daughter is a young woman,

• C the russet and gold of late summer’s sunburnt grasses,

• D That’s the trick in life—learning to leave well enough alone.

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26. What does the poet mean by the lines “suddenly everything is a metaphor for how/short a time we are granted on earth”?

• F Nature often serves as a reminder that time does not stand still.

• G Time passes differently for different people.

• H The future represents uncertainty.

• J Ordinary occurrences in nature cannot always be described.

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27. What is the most likely reason the poet ends the first stanza after line 13?

• A To emphasize the poem’s central message

• B To indicate a change in the poem’s setting

• C To introduce new details about the poem’s speaker

• D To highlight a shift in point of view

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