501 Critical Reading Questions

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457.
c.
The narrator’s familiarity with yachts and the harbor at Ply-
mouth (lines 1–12) in Passage 1 seems to indicate that he is an
experienced yachtsman. He reveals his passion for yachting in
lines 17–18, when he declares, 
Of all amusements, give me yacht-
ing.
All the other answer choices either do not make sense or
are not supported by specific examples from the text.
458.
e.
Nigel probably had rotten or missing teeth. The narrator of Pas-
sage 2 chose to describe Nigel’s smile as 
a graveyard of yellow sin-
cerity
, describing his yellow teeth as tombstones in a graveyard.
When a writer uses a descriptive word or phrase in place of
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