What attitude toward society is best reflected by Thoreau’s actions in Walden ?
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 the excerpt from "Mending Wall." We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: "Stay where you are until our backs are turned!" We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. What does the line “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?
How does the focus of the primary source article "Mrs. Hossack a Murderess" differ from the Midnight Assassin excerpt?
What does the speaker observe in "London's Summer Morning"?
How does Twain’s use of dialect in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contribute to the realist nature of the novel?
Which statement describes an example of irony from chapters 22 and 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ?
According to "The World on Turtle's Back," which statement best describes the origin of man?
Which evidence from "The World on Turtle's Back" best supports the conclusion that the left-handed twin has evil qualities?
What does the Declaration of Independence reveal about Thomas Jefferson, its primary author?
Which statement best describes the main idea of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address?
Which best describes the main idea of the fourth paragraph, which begins “We dare not to,” in John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address?
Read the last stanza of "That I did always love." This—dost thou doubt—Sweet— Then have I Nothing to show But Calvary— What does the word “Calvary” most likely suggest?
In part two of Trifles , which of the following is an example of dramatic irony?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher." Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber, hearkened -- I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me -- to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals, I knew not whence. Overpowered by an intense sentiment of horror, unaccountable yet unendurable, I threw on my clothes with haste. Which word from this excerpt could be used to argue that the narrator is unreliable?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death." But in the western or black chamber the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all. What technique does Poe use to build suspense in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death." But in the western or black chamber the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes, was ghastly in the extreme, and produced so wild a look upon the countenances of those who entered, that there were few of the company bold enough to set foot within its precincts at all. Which words from the excerpt most convey the mood?
Read the excerpt from "The Masque of the Red Death." It was then, however, that the Prince Prospero, maddening with rage and the shame of his own momentary cowardice, rushed hurriedly through the six chambers, while none followed him on account of a deadly terror that had seized upon all. He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer. What effect does the tone of the excerpt have on the reader?
Read the excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death." [W]hile the vast assembly, as if with one impulse, shrank from the centres of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple—through the purple to the green—through the green to the orange—through this again to the white—and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him. What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
What does the ebony clock symbolize in "The Masque of the Red Death"?
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