
NY Regents ELA - June 2017 Passage B
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- Q1Passage B The poet's purpose in referencing "Highway 99" in line 2 is most likely to establishan understanding of the narrator's difficult childhooda connection with the narrator's cultural heritagean emphasis on the region's diverse landscapea criticism of the valley's agricultural economy30s
- Q2Passage B The second stanza reveals that the narrator's overall point of view is influenced byhis nostalgia for farm lifethe expectations of his familythe labor of his relativeshis experience working on farms30s
- Q3Passage B The personification in lines 23 through 29 stresses history's desire to becomfortedforgottenheardrepeated30s
- Q4Passage B The figurative language in lines 33 and 34 implies the narratorunderstands that his future will have challengesanticipates that his new life will be successfulregrets leaving his past behindthinks he made the wrong decision30s