Details That Reveal Setting: Poetry Practice Test

Read the poem excerpt and answer the question.

"At my grandmother’s house, the curtains smell like mothballs

and the hallway narrows where family photos crowd.

In the kitchen, a clock shaped like a rooster loses minutes,

and the linoleum curls at the corners like old paper.

She asks if I’m hungry; I say I’m fine,

but my voice catches on the doorway’s chipped paint."

What do the bolded setting details suggest about the speaker’s experience in this place?​

Read the poem excerpt and answer the question.

"In the museum, the air is kept cold as a held breath.

My footsteps soften on carpet the color of old bones.

Beside the painting, a plaque speaks in perfect sentences,

and the guard stands under a camera’s unblinking eye.

I look at the storm on canvas and feel

my own weather quiet under the hush of climate control."

What do the bolded setting details suggest about the museum’s effect on the speaker?​