Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry?
a. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…”
b. “and on her dulcimer she played,/singing of mount abora.”
c. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”
d. “of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/the lone…sands stretch far away.”

The correct answer is B) "And on her dulcimer, she played/Singing on Mount Abora."

The excerpt that is most clearly an example of narrative poetry is "And on her dulcimer, she played/Singing on Mount Abora."

When using narrative poetry, the author tells stories in verse. The poem he/she writes has the elements of a story but using verse. This means it has a beginning, a plot, characters, and an end. It could include dialogue in the poem. Among narrative poetry, we can find ballads, epics, and Arthurian romances. In the case of the question, the excerpt that is most clearly an example of narrative poetry is "And on her dulcimer, she played/Singing on Mount Abora."

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.

invention of the washing machine

in the past, people used sticks and stones or scrub boards to clean their clothing. as it was sweaty, backbreaking work, we owe a world of to james king because he created the model for the modern washing machine in 1851. the most important issue was that this machine cleaned clothes while a person cranked the handle. doing this made people who used it develop strong muscles in their arms. later, in 1908, alva j. fisher created an electric washing machine named thor. this one was not the first automatic washing machine. however, it was one of the most popular models at the time.