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.
Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".And when he had foundthe bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same nightwill see two lovers lose their lives: she wasthe one more worthy of long life: it's Iwho bear the guilt for this. O my poor girl,it's I who led you to your death; I saidyou were to reach this fearful place by night;I let you be the first who would arrive.O all you lions with your lairs beneaththis cliff, come now, and with your fierce jaws feastupon my wretched guts!
What is the central idea of the letter to the editor?
Read the excerpt from the conclusion of the letter to the editor.We need to urge our city planners to say goodbye to the urban sprawl that has engulfed our nation like a tidal wave in the last few decades, and instead build more traditional mixed-use neighborhoods that were once the building blocks of city infrastructure in our nation. As the authors of Suburban Nation wrote: "We shape our cities and then our cities shape us. The choice is ours whether we build subdivisions that debase the human spirit or neighborhoods that nurture sociability and bring out the best in our nature.”
Read the excerpt from "It's Only Fair.”"It’s only fair,” Maritza told her friend Avery as they sat in their empty classroom after school. "The first person to do a famous thing should get the most credit for it. I mean, how much do you hear about the second person to fly an airplane over the Atlantic Ocean? Or the second guy who landed on the moon?”
Trevor has been asked to analyze the rhyme scheme in Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18.”Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
Read the passage from "The Tell-Tale Heart.”It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object there was none. Passion there was none. I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire. I think it was his eye! yes, it was this! He had the eye of a vulture—a pale blue eye, with a film over it.
Karishma is reading "The Tell-Tale Heart." She reads an excerpt, looks for clues, and makes a prediction about what happens next. Read the same excerpt and her prediction.His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness, (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers,) and so I knew that he could not see the opening of the door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily.Karishma predicted that the narrator would carry out the murder plot undetected. Next, read the subsequent excerpt that Karishma read. I had my head in, and was about to open the lantern, when my thumb slipped upon the tin fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed, crying out—"Who's there?"
Read this line from Hamlet discussed in Behind the Curtain.No one set scenes more brilliantly and economically than Shakespeare. Consider the opening lines of Hamlet: Barnardo: Who's there? Francisco: Nay, answer me. Stand, and unfold yourself. Barnardo: Long live the King! Francisco: Barnardo? Barnardo: He. In five terse lines Shakespeare establishes that it is nighttime and cold ("unfold yourself" means "draw back your cloak"), that the speakers are soldiers on guard, and that there is tension in the air. With just fifteen words—eleven of them monosyllables—he has the audience's full, rapt attention.
Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac."After eleven months, the Gestapo became suspicious. Remaining cool under the threat of capture, Baissac was able to return to England unharmed. There she helped to train new agents in parachuting. After recovering from a broken leg sustained during training, she completed other missions, including one in Normandy, France, where she worked with her brother Claude.
Read the excerpt from "Lise Marie de Baissac."In Normandy, Baissac pretended to be a refugee from Paris living in the house of a schoolmaster. There, she helped to set up more resistance groups and organize sabotage actions. Again traveling by bicycle, she maintained secret communications between groups and transported supplies. This was extremely dangerous work. Often covering forty miles in a single day, she carried arms and explosives as well as information about targets. Her actions, along with those of her colleagues, often delayed the arrival of German reinforcements to the front lines of battle.
What is the controlling idea of "Lise Marie de Baissac”?
In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet, why is Romeo considered the protagonist? Select 2 options.
In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet, how does Capulet complicate the central conflict?
Read the excerpt from "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?”"Minor detail,” Shondra said. "You just have to say it like you mean it. Come on, pretend I’m her.” She sat down and put a giant smug grin on her face. "Just remember: think ‘pain,’ but say ‘Romeo.’”
Which statement best expresses the theme of "Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?”
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Nurse: O Lord! I could have stay’d here all the nightTo hear good counsel: O! what learning is.My lord, I’ll tell my lady you will come. Romeo: Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide.Nurse: Here, sir, a ring she bid me give you, sir.Hie you, make haste, for it grows very late. [Exit.] Romeo: How well my comfort is reviv’d by this!
In Act III, scenes iii and iv of Romeo and Juliet, why does Nurse most likely go to see Friar Laurence and Romeo?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: Monday! ha, ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon;O’ Thursday let it be: o’ Thursday, tell her,She shall be married to this noble earl.Will you be ready? do you like this haste? We’ll keep no great ado; a friend or two;For, hark you, Tybalt being slain so late,It may be thought we held him carelessly,Being our kinsman, if we revel much.Therefore we’ll have some half a dozen friends, And there an end. But what say you to Thursday? Paris: My lord, I would that Thursday were to-morrow.
Which lines from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet show Friar Laurence believes Romeo should be grateful for his nonfatal punishment? Select three options.Thou fond mad man, hear me but speak a word.Be patient, for the world is broad and wide.A gentler judgment vanish’d from his lips,This is dear mercy, and thou seest it not.I bring thee tidings of the prince’s doom.
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