Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides. Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law; when it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man possesses. No one, so long as he has it in him to be of service to the state, is kept in political obscurity because of poverty. Which statement best shows how the speaker develops the idea that power is in the hands of the whole people?
Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides. Mighty indeed are the marks and monuments of our empire which we have left. Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but whose estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true. For our adventurous spirit has forced an entry into every sea and into every land; and everywhere we have left behind us everlasting memorials of good done to our friends or suffering inflicted on our enemies. Which detail best supports the speaker’s purpose to convince the audience of Athens’s power and influence?
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Which statements describe the Middle Ages? Choose three correct answers.
Which is the best example of a vivid sensory detail?
Which strategy does the author use in her choice of language to convey her message?
Which best explains the inconsistency in writing used in this paragraph?
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales. "But, sirs, it is not courteous of you To speak so roughly to an old man, who Has not offended you by word or deed. It’s there in Holy Writ for you to read: "Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head Of an old man”—and therefore do no harm, I warn you, to an old man while you’re young, Any more than you’d like to have it done To you in old age, should you live so long. Now God be with you! I go where I must go.” How is the old man characterized in this excerpt?
Which excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . suggests that the narrator may be unreliable?
Read the excerpt from the General Prolgue to The Canterbury Tales . Comfortably on an ambling horse she sat, Well-wimpled, wearing on her head a hat That might have been a shield in size and shape; A riding-skirt round her enormous hips, Also a pair of sharp spurs on her feet. How does the author characterize the business woman from Bath in this excerpt?
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