Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.The CIA planning was extraordinary. Questions were asked. Problems were anticipated, solutions suggested. With information provided by an informant in the Soviet state-run telephone operation, the U.S. knew that the spot they needed to reach with the tunnel was under Schonefelder Chaussee, a major highway that ran along the southern edge of Berlin.
Read these lines from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Read the excerpt from chapter 6 of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy.One afternoon, after another dreary Sunday, he walked home from Mrs. Cobb's with the sea breeze determined to shove him to Malaga Island. It scooted around him and pulled at his ears. It threw up the dust of the road into his face to turn him around, and when he leaned into it, it suddenly let go and pushed at him from behind, laughing. But with the iron word forbidden tolling like a heavy bell by his ears, Turner would not let himself be brought to Malaga. And so with a last abrupt kick, the sea breeze twisted around and left him. Turner watched it rushing pell-mell down Parker Head and toward the shore. "Go find Lizzie," he whispered.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt: Romeo: One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun8Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun. Benvolio: Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid85That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Which line of dialogue from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet most foreshadows that Mercutio’s death will lead to other tragic events in the story?
Which statements about William Shakespeare’s sonnets are true? Select four options.They have a fixed rhyme scheme and structure.They were the first sonnets ever to be written.They often present a question and an answer.They often present a problem and a solution.They were originally written in Italian.They frequently focus upon love and romance.
Read this line from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
Central ideas are the most ideas in a text.
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Which are purposes of comic relief? Select 3 options.easing the tension an audience may be feelingproviding background information about charactersemphasizing the seriousness of the previous momentbalancing the mood of a serious drama through contrastoffering a complication to the rising action of a plot
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet. Montague: Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs: But all so soon as the all-cheering sun Should in the furthest east begin to draw120The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed, Away from light steals home my heavy son, And private in his chamber pens himself, Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night.125Black and portentous must this humour prove Unless good counsel may the cause remove.
Read the sentence.When they arrived at the beach, the students who had never seen the ocean before ran toward the shore.
Read the excerpt from My Story.More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.
Which details from the narration show that Rainsford is an experienced hunter and outdoor enthusiast? Select 3 options.
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game.Montgomery quickly fetched Admiral Hall. The head of Room 40, nicknamed "Blinker" for the uncontrollable twitching in his eyes, hurried into the room and stood in front of de Grey's desk. Without saying a word, de Grey stood and handed the message to the small, ruddy-faced man, Hall's eyes took in what Montgomery and de Grey had discovered. His eye twitches became more pronounced as he tried to assess the impact of what he was reading.
How many iambs per line does a Shakespearean sonnet contain?
Read this excerpt from The Raven.here I opened wide the door–Darkness there and nothing more.Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?"This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"– Merely this and nothing more.
A(n) ____ expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence.
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