SAT Practicec0d5cda2-7f7f-4ff4-8770-c67f7547c647
Practice one SAT question at a time
Questions come from the Bluebook question bank.
The following text is from Ameen Rihani’s 1921 poem “The Wanderer.”
I wander among the hills of alien lands
Where Nature her prerogative resigns
To Man; where Comfort in her shack reclines
And all the arts and sciences commands.
But in my soul
The eastern billows roll—
I hear the voices of my native strands.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined lines in the text as a whole?