Read the line from Grendel . I was safe in my tree, and the men who fought were nothing to me, except of course that they talked in something akin to my language, which meant that we were, incredibly, related. This is an example of a
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. There is no concept of "health and safety" in Elizabethan England, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. Nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. People die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. Infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. Even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. On top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common. What is the topic of this paragraph?
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. How does this confrontation advance the plot?
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 love Over the nasty sty,— Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet! The excerpt supports the conclusion that Gertrude
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 excerpt provides the best evidence to support the analysis?
Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England . It is unlikely that you will be hanged for taking a wild animal such as a rabbit; but, even so, you will get a fine amounting to three times the value of the animal as well as three months in prison, and you will have to enter into a bond to guarantee your good behavior in the future; a second offense will be treated more harshly. Which statement best describes how the author’s use of second-person point of view affects readers?
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. What inference can be made about both rich landowners and pig farmers, based on this excerpt?
Which detail from Gilgamesh: A New English Version is the best example of an intervention by a supernatural force?
Read the passage from The “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. The repetition of the word "love" is effective because it
If Kaya wanted to analyze the development of the central ideas in The Farewell Speech, which questions should she ask herself? Choose three correct answers.
In The Farewell Speech, Queen Elizabeth’s use of first-person point of view
Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard. GUIL ( musing ) The law of probability, it has been oddly asserted, is something to do with the proposition that if six monkeys ( he has surprised himself ) . . . if six monkeys were . . . ROS Game? GUIL Were they? ROS Are you? GUIL ( understanding ) Game. ( Flips a coin .) The law of averages, if I have got this right, means that if six monkeys were thrown up in the air for long enough they would land on their tails about as often as they would land on their— ROS Heads. ( He picks up the coin .) GUIL Which even at first glance does not strike one as a particularly rewarding speculation, in either sense, even without the monkeys. I mean you wouldn’t bet on it. I mean I would, but you wouldn’t. . . . ROS Heads. . . . . . . ( He looks up at Guil—embarrassed laugh .) Getting a bit of a bore, isn’t it? What is suggested by Rosencrantz's and Guildenstern’s conflicting perspectives about the coin toss?
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet . Ophelia: My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them. Read the adaptation of the excerpt. Ophelia: I have some things here that I want to return to you. Please, take them back. What choice did the writer of this adaptation make?
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? Based on this part of the soliloquy, which best describes Hamlet’s perception of life?
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. But, sirs, there’s one thing I forgot to add: I’ve got relics and pardons in my bag As good as anybody’s in England, All given to me by the Pope’s own hand. If any here should wish, out of devotion, To make an offering, and have absolution, Let them come forward now, and kneeling down Humbly receive my blessing and pardon. What feature of medieval life is reflected in the passage?
Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. I have repeatedly asserted, and produced what appeared to me irrefragable arguments drawn from matters of fact, to prove my assertion, that women cannot, by force, be confined to domestic concerns; for they will, however ignorant, intermeddle with more weighty affairs, neglecting private duties only to disturb, by cunning tricks, the orderly plans of reason which rise above their comprehension. This idea enhances Wollstonecraft’s argument by
Read the passage from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Consequently the perfection of our nature and capability of happiness, must be estimated by the degree of reason, virtue, and knowledge, that distinguish the individual, and direct the laws which bind society: and that from the exercise of reason, knowledge and virtue naturally flow, is equally undeniable, if mankind be viewed collectively. Which is the best description of the author’s diction in the passage?
Read the passage from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman . The rights and duties of man thus simplified, it seems almost impertinent to attempt to illustrate truths that appear so incontrovertible: yet such deeply rooted prejudices have clouded reason, and such spurious qualities have assumed the name of virtues, that it is necessary to pursue the course of reason as it has been perplexed and involved in error, by various adventitious circumstances, comparing the simple axiom with casual deviations. This passage is an example of Enlightenment thinking because Wollstonecraft
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet . Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow. Rosencrantz: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow. In this excerpt, the characters describe the nature of
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . In the king’s service he’d fought valiantly, And travelled far; no man as far as he In Christian and in heathen lands as well, And ever honoured for his ability. He was at Alexandria when it fell, Often he took the highest place at table Over the other foreign knights in Prussia; He’d raised in Lithuania and Russia, No Christian of his rank fought there more often. Which statement best describes how the knight is characterized in this excerpt?
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