Read the following extract from Robert Frost's poem, 'A Considerable Speck' and answer the questions that follow: This was no dust speck by my breathing blown, But unmistakably a living mite With inclinations it could call its own.
Why did the narrator conclude that the mite had feet?
Topic: The mite had feet
Answer
Because of the way it moved. He watched it run, stop and start again, and race along the page, and no creature could travel in that manner — "with terror and with tremor" yet still swiftly and under control — unless it had feet to carry it. Its ability to halt suddenly at the wet ink and turn aside proved deliberate footwork rather than drifting.
Keep the answer tied to observed evidence — the running, the stopping, the swerving. Frost’s method throughout the poem is to infer inner qualities from outward motion, and the examiner rewards candidates who show they have followed that chain of reasoning.