Read the excerpt from A Man's World . FRITZ: Oh—but de talk—de talk—I can't stand it for you. When you go out like dis people don't believe it is for your work. They say you have a lover—they say he writes your books. FRANK: That's very flattering. It means that they think they are too good for a woman to do. Which best describes why this excerpt is ironic?
In A Man's World , how does Crothers portray Frank, the female protagonist?
Read the following scene from A Man's World . FRITZ: But you are a woman. You must not expect people to trust you—too much. FRANK: I’m not going to spend my life explaining. FRITZ: (Sitting at L. of desk.) No—but you— FRANK: Oh, Fritz, don’t. You've been so nice and so comfortable. And now you’re beginning to worry. You see how much better it would have been for both of us if I’d never told you anything about myself and about Kiddie. How would an audio production differ from a stage production of this scene?
Which excerpt from A Man's World contains a stage direction?
Which sentence best describes George Bergeron’s characterization in "Harrison Bergeron"?
Read the excerpt from "Harrison Bergeron." “You been crying?” he said to Hazel. “Yup,” she said. “What about?” he said. “I forget,” she said. “Something real sad on television.” “What was it?” he said. “It’s all kind of mixed up in my mind,” said Hazel. “Forget sad things,” said George. “I always do,” said Hazel. How does this interaction between George and Hazel develop Kurt Vonnegut’s social criticism?
According to the author, what are the benefits of school uniforms?
Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” I have to stick my railroad watch in my jean watchpocket and cut out allowing myself exactly 8 minutes to the station and the 7:15 train No. 112 I have to catch for the ride five miles to Bayshore through four tunnels, emerging from the sad Rath scene of Frisco gloom gleak in the rainymouth fogmourning to a sudden valley with grim hills rising to the sea, bay on the left, the fog rolling in . Which phrase from the excerpt supports the idea that the rhythm of jazz music played an important role in Kerouac’s writing style?
In part two of Trifles , which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue." Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. How does Tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from "Mother Tongue." Lately, I’ve been giving more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as “broken” or “fractured” English. But I wince when I say that. It has always bothered me that I can think of no other way to describe it other than “broken,” as if it were damaged and needed to be fixed, as if it lacked a certain wholeness and soundness. What can be inferred from the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Amy Tan’s essay “Mother Tongue.” I know this for a fact, because when I was growing up, my mother’s “limited” English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed that her English reflected the quality of what she had to say. That is, because she expressed them imperfectly her thoughts were imperfect. Which phrase from the excerpt uses informal English?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s Executive Order No. 9066. Whereas the successful prosecution of the war requires every possible protection against espionage and against sabotage to national-defense material, national-defense premises, and national-defense utilities. . . . Which best describes the impact of the words “prosecution,” “espionage,” and “sabotage”?
Read the excerpt from Brown v. Board of Education . Reargument was largely devoted to the circumstances surrounding the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868. The Supreme Court studies the Fourteenth Amendment to determine
Read the excerpt from "In Response to Executive Order 9066". I am a fourteen-year-old girl with bad spelling and a messy room. If it helps any, I will tell you I have always felt funny using chopsticks and my favorite food is hot dogs. Why does Okita include this description of the speaker?
Read the following scene from Trifles . COUNTY ATTORNEY (preoccupied ) : Is there a cat? (Mrs. Hale glances in a quick covert way at Mrs. Peters. ) MRS. PETERS : Well, not now. They’re superstitious, you know. They leave. COUNTY ATTORNEY ( to Sheriff Peters, continuing an interrupted conversation .) No sign at all of anyone having come from the outside. Their own rope. Now let’s go up again and go over it piece by piece. ( They start upstairs. ) It would have to have been someone who knew just the— (Mrs. Peters sits down. The two women sit there not looking at one another, but as if peering into something and at the same time holding back. When they talk now, it is the manner of feeling their way over strange ground, as if afraid of what they are saying, but as if they cannot help saying it .) How would an audio recording most likely convey the characters’ actions during this scene?
Read this excerpt from "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk." Thus, in the final analysis, American strategy in Vietnam consists of creating a killing machine in the form of a highly equipped expeditionary corps and then turning this machine on the enemy in the hope that over the years enough killing will be done to force the enemy’s collapse through exhaustion and despair. This strategy, although possibly the only feasible alternative open to a modern industrial power in such a situation, is of necessity brutal and heedless of many of its victims. What is the philosophical concept in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk." I wonder, when I look at the bombed out peasant hamlets, the orphans begging and stealing on the streets of Saigon and the women and children with napalm burns lying on the hospital cots, whether the United States or any nation has the right to inflict this suffering and degradation on another people for its own ends. How do the allusions in this excerpt reinforce the meaning of the passage?
Read this excerpt from the text "Not a Dove, But No Longer a Hawk." There were many disappointments those first two years, but when I left Vietnam in 1964, I was still, to use the current parlance, a hawk. I returned to Saigon in 1965 for another year. Now I have left again, and much has changed. There were 17,000 American servicemen in Vietnam at the time of my first departure and there are now 317,000 and I, while not a dove, am no longer a hawk. . . . Based on this excerpt, Neil Sheehan would most likely agree that
How does Spiegelman’s visual representation of the Holocaust aid with comprehension?
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