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TEST GUIDE ENGLISH SUBTEST I - CSETs

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English Subtest I<br />

16. Read the excerpt below from "Spring and All," a poem by William Carlos Williams; then answer<br />

the question that follows.<br />

The style and subject matter in this<br />

excerpt are most characteristic of poetry<br />

from which of the following literary<br />

movements?<br />

A. imagist<br />

B. Symbolist<br />

C. Parnassian<br />

D. new formalist<br />

By the road to the contagious hospital<br />

under the surge of the blue<br />

mottled clouds driven from the<br />

northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the<br />

waste of broad, muddy fields<br />

brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen<br />

patches of standing water<br />

the scattering of tall trees<br />

All along the road the reddish<br />

purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy<br />

stuff of bushes and small trees<br />

with dead, brown leaves under them<br />

leafless vines—<br />

California Subject Examinations for Teachers Test Guide 11

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