Item 5 Read the excerpt from “The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.”

“We kept these things for some days,” said Holmes, “because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your address. Why didn’t you advertise?”

Our visitor laughed sheepishly. “Shillings are not so plentiful with me as they once were. I thought that the gang of roughs who attacked me had carried off both my hat and the bird. I thought it would be a waste of money to try to get them back.”

“Of course. By the way, about the bird, we had to eat it.”

“To eat it!” Our visitor half rose from his chair in his excitement.

“Yes, it would have spoiled if we hadn’t. But here is another goose. It is about the same weight and perfectly fresh. Will it do?”

“Oh, certainly, certainly,” answered Mr. Baker, sighing with relief.

“Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of your own bird, so if you wish—”

The man burst into a hearty laugh. “They might be useful as souvenirs of my adventure,” he said, “but beyond that, they are of no use to me.”

Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply at me with a slight shrug of his shoulders.

Question 1
Part A

What can readers conclude based on the details in the text?

Because it was a gift for his wife, Baker is upset about the loss of the goose.

Mr. Baker does not advertise to find his lost items because they are worthless.

Holmes wants Watson to admit he was right about Baker’s innocence.

Mr. Baker is unaware that a valuable gem was hidden in the goose.

Question 2
Part B

Which evidence from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

“Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply at me with a slight shrug of his shoulders.”

“’To eat it!’ Our visitor half rose from his chair in his excitement.”

“‘They might be useful as souvenirs of my adventure,’ he said, ‘but beyond that, they are of no use to me.’”

“’I thought that the gang of roughs who attacked me had carried off both my hat and the bird.’"

What he said he’s right

Explanation:

the first proposition is to question economic materialism and victorian christianity. the lines are:

“it moves us not.—great god! i'd rather be

a pagan suckled in a creed outworn; ”

wordsworth is stating that nature no longer interests mankind, that the latter is not “moved” by it and explains that ancient western paganism had a more positive attitude concerning nature since it lacked the perv erted judaeo-christian interpretation of having received the world and all its animals and elements from god to use as we , instead of humans actually being not only part of nature but its wardens, meant to appreciate it and protect it.

the next lines are:

“so might i, standing on this pleasant lea,

have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

have sight of proteus coming from the sea;

or hear old triton blow his wreathed horn.”

wordsworth here make it very clear that by actually looking and contemplating nature, human beings would reconnect with happiness, serenity and purpose. the use of mythological figures is quite evocative as well, proteus is a greek mythological god of the changing sea. he personifies the sea that changes, which symbolizes the way nature changes and inevitably can change to be destructive not only due to natural causes but to human pollution. furthermore, the sea is even more symbolic since all life originated in the sea so it is not only our past but our future since no life form in our planet can survive without water and if all water is destroyed in earth all life will be gone as well.

he then uses triton which is symbolic of the synthesis of both nature and mankind. triton is a mythological greek god that has the upper body of a man and the lower body of a fish (a merman). this human fish duality evokes the fact that humans are not only human but also part of nature, the fish tail representing nature. the main attribute of this god was that he used a conch shell as a horn to calm the roaring seas. in other words, triton uses nature through science for the benefit of human sailors who risk death during tempests. with the use of such metaphor, wordworth is conveying the message that human technology   is supposed to use nature to preserve nature and thereby humanity as well.

a simile is first defined as a type of speech that uses one thing or phrase with comparisons to things of an unrelated kind, often in order to make a more vivacious description. so of the phrases above, only the last one (i swear she cast a shadow white as stone) would be considered a simile, as a shadow white as stone takes two unrelated things and uses them in an interesting way.

explanation:

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