Writing a Narrative Application Essay — Cumulative exam Answers

In The Farewell Speech, Queen Elizabeth’s use of first-person point of view

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Good Laertes,If you desire to know the certainty Of your dear father's death, is 't writ in your revenge, That, swoopstake, you will draw both friend and foe, Winner and loser?Laertes: None but his enemies.Claudius: Will you know them then?Laertes: To his good friends thus wide I'll ope my arms; And like the kind life-rendering pelican, Repast them with my blood.

Read the passage from The Farewell Speech.I do assure you there is no prince that loves his subjects better, or whose love can countervail our love. There is no jewel, be it of never so rich a price, which I set before this jewel: I mean your love. For I do esteem it more than any treasure or riches; for that we know how to prize, but love and thanks I count invaluable.

Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see.—[Takes the skull.]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.

Which features of the Anglo-Saxon culture are present in Beowulf? Select 3 options.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In 1574 the city authorities are given powers to restrict playhouses, forcing the actors to find new premises in the suburbs. This becomes a golden opportunity for John Brayne and his brother-in-law, James Burbage, who in 1576 build a new theater, simply called The Theatre, at Shoreditch, just half a mile north of Bishopsgate. The following year a second theater, the Curtain, is built just two hundred yards away. Despite some heavy opposition from Puritan preachers and moralists, both theaters are successful.

Read the paragraph from a personal narrative.1 It may have seemed like an ordinary day to everyone else, but to me, it couldn't have been further from it. 2 Today was my first day working as a waitress at Pete's Pizza Haven, and I could not have been more excited. 3 In fact, I was so excited that I rushed to get ready much faster than I typically do. 4 "I'm ready to go!" I shouted, bouncing down the stairs and flying into the kitchen, where my mom was making breakfast. 5 "I have so much to learn and don't want to be late," I declared for emphasis. 6 My mom just grinned and placed a steaming plate of eggs before me.

Read the passage from Beowulf."We are retainersfrom Hygelac’s band. Beowulf is my name.If your lord and master, the most renownedson of Halfdane, will hear me outand graciously allow me to greet him in person,I am ready and willing to report my errand."

Which details from the excerpt provide more information about Shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? Select 3 options.

A reader using a historical lens to analyze a text will be most concerned with

Read the excerpt from an analysis of Act III of Hamlet.The fight between Hamlet and Gertrude reinforces gender stereotypes, as Hamlet judges Gertrude and she accepts his criticism without attempting to justify her actions.

Which words contain an affix? Select 4 options.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet.Gertrude: O Hamlet! speak no more; Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct.Hamlet: Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making loveOver the nasty sty,—Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet!

Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?

The best strategy for an active listener to apply is to

Sedentary lifestyles are harmful. Sedentary lifestyles result in disease.

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.Rich landowners do not normally sell their grain immediately after the harvest is in, when prices are low; instead they store it until the numerous small-scale producers have sold all theirs and prices go up again. Pig farmers keep their flitches of bacon back in storage until they can get a better price for them later in the winter. Such tactics are made even more profitable by the unhappy fact that harvests can fail, causing local—and sometimes national—food shortages.

Elementary school students are not ____________ to talk while the teacher reads __________ after lunch.Which words complete the sentence correctly?

Which are examples of strong evidence that could be used to support a claim in a debate? Check all that apply.

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin?