Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.I am so deeply smitten thro’ the helmThat without help I cannot last till morn.Thou therefore take my brand Excalibur,Which was my pride:
Read the excerpt from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.And when they were at the water side, even fast by the bank hoved a little barge with many fair ladies in it, and among them all was a queen, and all they had black hoods, and all they wept and shrieked when they saw King Arthur.Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Beneath them; and descending they were wareThat all the decks were dense with stately formsBlack-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by theseThree Queens with crowns of gold—and from them roseA cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars,
is vivid language that appeals to the senses and creates an impression.
What is a retelling of a story in a different form or genre called?
Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by theseThree Queens with crowns of gold—and from them roseA cry that shiver’d to the tingling stars,
Which type of figurative language directly equates two things?
Which sentences contain imagery? Select three options.
Read the excerpt from Le Morte d’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory.That is untruly said of thee, said the king, therefore go thou lightly again, and do my commandment; as thou art to me lief and dear, spare not, but throw it in.Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale:"Thou hast betray’d thy nature and thy name,Not rendering true answer, as beseem’dThy fëalty, nor like a noble knight:For surer sign had follow’d, either hand,Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.This is a shameful thing for men to lie.Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go againAs thou art lief and dear, and do the thingI bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.”
When comparing and contrasting an original source to its adaptation, one should focus on which elements? Select four options.characterstructuregenreplotlanguage
Read the excerpt from "Morte d'Arthur” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.But when I look’d again, behold an arm,Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,That caught him by the hilt, and brandish’d himThree times, and drew him under in the mere.
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