Skills Lesson: Structure Answers

Which genre uses narrative techniques to recount personal experience and development?

Which genre uses narrative techniques to provide a glimpse into the human experience?

Read the selection below from “The Once and Future Merlin” by Marion Zimmer Bradley and answer the question that follows. Over the centuries the story has been told and retold and told again, often with a widely varying cast of characters. Knights, priests and priestesses, kings and queens, and various users of magic come and go, but always there is Arthur, the sun around which all else revolves, his faithless wife (Guinevere), his equally-faithless best friend (Lancelot), the illegitimate son (Mordred) who becomes his bane—and Merlin. Whatever his role, Merlin is always there, and it is always clear that Arthur could not have existed, survived, or become King without him. Source: Bradley, Marion Zimmer. “The Once and Future Merlin.” Fictionwise.com. Fictionwise LLC, n.d. Web. 7 July 2011. Why does the author list the “varying cast of characters” in the passage above?

Which statement about the lyric poem is true?

Which statement about novels is true?

Read the selection below from The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck and complete the statement that follows. And Lancelot knelt down and took the king’s beloved hand in both of his and kissed it. “Good night, my liege lord, my liege friend,” he said, and then stumbled blindly from the room and felt his way down the curving stone steps past the arrow slits. As he came to the level of the next landing, Guinevere issued silently from a darkened entrance. He could see her in the thin light from the arrow slit. She took his arm and led him to her dark chamber and closed the oaken door. “A strange thing happened,” she said softly. Source: Steinbeck, John. The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. New York: Penguin, 2009. Google Books. Web. 7 July 2011. All of the following suggest that the passage above is fiction except __________.

Read the selection below from the play King Arthur’s Socks by Floyd Dell and answer the question that follows. A young man enters. GUENEVERE: Lancelot! LANCELOT: Guenevere! (They go up to each other, and he takes both her hands. They stand that way for a moment. Then he says lightly)—Darning King Arthur’s socks, I see! GUENEVERE: (releasing herself, and going back to her chair) Yes. Sit down. LANCELOT: Where’s his royal highness? GUENEVERE: New York. Why don’t you ever come to see us? Source: Dell, Floyd. King Arthur’s Socks. 1922. King Arthur’s Socks and Other Village Plays. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. Google Books. Web. 7 July 2011. What information can be inferred from the passage above?

Read the selection below from the play King Arthur’s Socks by Floyd Dell and complete the statement that follows. A young man enters. GUENEVERE: Lancelot! LANCELOT: Guenevere! (They go up to each other, and he takes both her hands. They stand that way for a moment. Then he says lightly)—Darning King Arthur’s socks, I see! GUENEVERE: (releasing herself, and going back to her chair) Yes. Sit down. LANCELOT: Where’s his royal highness? GUENEVERE: New York. Why don’t you ever come to see us? Source: Dell, Floyd. King Arthur’s Socks. 1922. King Arthur’s Socks and Other Village Plays. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing, 2004. Google Books. Web. 7 July 2011. All of the following appear in the passage above except __________.

Which statement about the expository essay is true?

Which genre uses narrative and poetic techniques to tell a story?