Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Nurse: O Lord! I could have stay’d here all the night To 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! Why does Romeo feel "reviv’d,” or comforted?
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. Based on this dialogue, how does Paris feel about marrying Juliet?
Read the conclusion of Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. Why does Lincoln conclude with an appeal to both pathos and ethos? Choose three correct answers.
Which excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet best reflects the idea that when a person overlooks what he or she knows is wrong, it can result in a catastrophe?
Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. [ Exit FRIAR LAURENCE.] What’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after! I will kiss thy lips; Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative. [ Kisses him .] Which tragic flaw of Juliet’s character is reflected in this excerpt?
Read the dialogue from Act II, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo: Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not here for the goose. Mercutio: I will bite thee by the ear for that jest. Romeo: Nay, good goose, bite not. Mercutio: Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. Romeo: And is it not then well served in to a sweet goose? Which word from the conversation best helps the reader understand the mood of the scene?
Read the excerpt from Loom and Spindle . That was a hard, cold winter; and for warmth's sake my mother and her four children all slept in one bed, two at the foot and three at the head,—but her richer neighbor could not get the little daughter; and, contrary to all the modern notions about hygiene, we were a healthful and a robust brood. Which statement best reflects the narrator’s perspective in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Loom and Spindle . I can see myself now, racing down the alley, between the spinning-frames, carrying in front of me a bobbin-box bigger than I was. These mites had to be very swift in their movements, so as not to keep the spinning-frames stopped long, and they worked only about fifteen minutes in every hour. What inference can be drawn about factory work of the time period?
Read the excerpt from "VI" by Emily Dickinson. "If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly." Why did the author most likely choose the imagery of brushing away a fly?
Read the excerpt from "VI" by Emily Dickinson. If you were coming in the fall, I'd brush the summer by With half a smile and half a spurn, As housewives do a fly. Which phrase includes assonance?
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Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo: Ha! banishment! be merciful, say ‘death;’ For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: do not say ‘banishment.’ Which is the best paraphrase of this dialogue?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence: Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour’d of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. What is the meaning of the phrase "thou art wedded to calamity”?
Which best describes the author’s purpose in "Dwaina Brooks”?
Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.” Then one afternoon, Dwaina talked with a young man who had been without a home for a long time. "What do you need?" she asked him. "I need a job and a permanent home," he replied. "Well, I can't give you that," she answered impatiently. "I don't have a job either. Don't you need anything else?" "Yeah. I would love a really good meal again." How is Dwaina affected by her conversation with the young man?
Read the excerpt from "Dwaina Brooks.” Coupons helped cut the prices for sandwich wrapping, cookies, and mayonnaise. Dwaina's uncle got them discount lunch meats from the store where he used to work. Thursday night was bargain night at the bakery in nearby Lancaster. They drove away with six big loaves of day-old bread for 1 point 7 8 dollars "Mama, do you think anyone at the shelter will really eat day-old bread?" Dwaina asked. "We eat it," Gail replied. "If it don't kill us, it won't kill them." The baker gave them twenty free boxes, too, when he heard how they would be used. Dwaina's aunts and uncles brought over huge sacks of chips and big bottles of salad dressing. What idea is emphasized through repetition?
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?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Mercutio : Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes. What eye, but such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou hast quarrelled with a man for coughing in the street, because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun. Didst thou not fall out with a tailor for wearing his new doublet before Easter? with another, for tying his new shoes with old riband? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quarrelling! Benvolio : An I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter. Mercutio : The fee-simple! O simple! Benvolio : By my head, here come the Capulets. Why does Shakespeare include this comic speech by Mercutio?
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