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Questions 3-5 refer to the following poem. The Deserted House Life and Thought have gone awaySide by side,Leaving door and windows wide:Careless tenants they! All within is dark as night:In the windows is no light:And no murmur at the door,So frequent on its hinge before. Close the door, the shutters close,Or thro' the windows we shall seeThe nakedness and vacancyOf the dark deserted house. Come away: no more of mirthIs here or merry-making sound.The house was builded of the earth,And shall fall again to ground. Come away: for Life and ThoughtHere no longer dwell;But in a city glorious—A great and distant city—have boughtA mansion incorruptible.Would they could have stayed with us. —Alfred, LordTennyson In the final stanza, Tennyson uses which of the following literary devices to enhance the poem's meaning? A.Allusion B.Irony C.Hyperbole D.Alliteration {Ans: Option (A) is correct. The lines "But in a city glorious—/A great and distant city—have bought/A mansion incorruptible" allude to the biblical notion of "heaven."}In the following diary entry, a young girl describes her experience at school with a group of refugees who have recently fled from Europe to the United States. I brought the refugee kids oranges today. Can you believe it—they didn't