Read the excerpt from Pygmalion and Galatea by Josephine Preston Peabody. But it chanced that Pygmalion fell to work upon an ivory statue of a maiden, so lovely that it must have moved to envy every breathing creature that came to look upon it. With a happy heart the sculptor wrought day by day, giving it all the beauty of his dreams, until, when the work was completed, he felt powerless to leave it. He was bound to it by the tie of his highest aspiration, his most perfect ideal, his most patient work. Read the excerpt from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. HIGGINS: [with professional exquisiteness of modulation] I walk over everybody! My dear Mrs. Pearce, my dear Pickering, I never had the slightest intention of walking over anyone. All I propose is that we should be kind to this poor girl. We must help her to prepare and fit herself for her new station in life. If I did not express myself clearly it was because I did not wish to hurt her delicacy, or yours. What do the source text by Peabody and the adaptation by Shaw have in common?
Read the passage from "Marriage Is a Private Affair" by Chinua Achebe. "I shall not call in a native doctor.” Nnaemeka’s father was known to be obstinately ahead of his more superstitious neighbours in these matters. "I will not be another Mrs. Ochuba. If my son wants to kill himself let him do it with his own hands. It is not for me to help him.” "But it was her fault,” said Madubogwu. "She ought to have gone to an honest herbalist. She was a clever woman, nevertheless.” "She was a wicked murderess,” said Jonathan who rarely argued with his neighbours because, he often said, they were incapable of reasoning. "The medicine was prepared for her husband, it was his name they called in its preparation and I am sure it would have been perfectly beneficial to him. It was wicked to put it into the herbalist’s food, and say you were only trying it out.” What are the benefits of analyzing this passage from more than one perspective? Choose two correct answers.
Read the line from Rita Dove’s poem "Sonnet in Primary Colors,” then study Frida Kahlo’s painting Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot . the thumbprint searing her immutable brow. Expand Image How does this line relate to the artwork?
Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming and his regiment are leaving an unsuccessful battle, and Henry is discussing their performance and their leadership. "Good Gawd,” the youth grumbled, "we’re always being chased around like rats! It makes me sick. Nobody seems to know where we go or why we go. We just get fired around from pillar to post and get licked here and get licked there, and nobody knows what it’s done for. It makes a man feel like a . . . kitten in a bag. Now, I’d like to know what the eternal thunders we was marched into these woods for anyhow, unless it was to give the rebs a regular pot shot at us. We came in here and got our legs all tangled up in these cussed briers, and then we begin to fight and the rebs had an easy time of it. Don’t tell me it’s just luck! I know better. Which sentence best expresses Henry’s perspective in this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, a soldier who Henry encounters while out in the field (referred to as the tattered soldier) is talking to Henry Fleming about the battle they had just experienced. But the other hobbled industriously after him. There was an air of apology in his manner, but he evidently thought that he needed only to talk for a time, and the youth would perceive that he was a good fellow. "Was pretty good fight, wa’n’t it?” he began in a small voice, and then he achieved the fortitude to continue. "Dern me if I ever see fellers fight so. Laws, how they did fight! I knowed th’ boys’d like it when they onct got square at it. Th’ boys ain’t had no fair chanct up t’ now, but this time they showed what they was. I know it’d turn out this way. Yeh can’t lick them boys. No, sir! They’re fighters, they be.” He breathed a deep breath of humble admiration. He had looked at the youth for encouragement several times. He received none, but gradually he seemed to get absorbed in his subject. Which quotation suggests that the characters have conflicting perspectives in this excerpt?
Read the excerpts from The Red Badge of Courage. In the first excerpt, Henry Fleming decides to enlist in the Union Army. In the second excerpt, Henry has been with his regiment for a short time. Excerpt 1: At last, however, he had made firm rebellion against this yellow light thrown upon the color of his ambitions. The newspapers, the gossip of the village, his own picturings, had aroused him to an uncheckable degree. They were in truth fighting finely down there. Almost every day the newspaper printed accounts of a decisive victory. One night, as he lay in bed, the winds had carried to him the clangoring of the church bell as some enthusiast jerked the rope frantically to tell the twisted news of a great battle. This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement. Later, he had gone down to his mother’s room and had spoken thus: "Ma, I’m going to enlist.” Excerpt 2: In regard to his companions his mind wavered between two opinions, according to his mood. Sometimes he inclined to believing them all heroes. In fact, he usually admired in secret the superior development of the higher qualities in others. He could conceive of men going very insignificantly about the world bearing a load of courage unseen, and although he had known many of his comrades through boyhood, he began to fear that his judgment of them had been blind. Then, in other moments, he flouted these theories, and assured him that his fellows were all privately wondering and quaking. His emotions made him feel strange in the presence of men who talked excitedly of a prospective battle as of a drama they were about to witness, with nothing but eagerness and curiosity apparent in their faces. It was often that he suspected them to be liars. How does Henry’s differing views on battle affect his getting ready to enter the war?
Read the excerpt from The Red Badge of Courage. In this excerpt, Henry Fleming has just expressed disapproval of how his commanding officers lead, which he believes caused his regiment to lose the battle they had recently fought. "Well, then, if we fight like the devil an’ don’t ever whip, it must be the general’s fault,” said the youth grandly and decisively. "And I don’t see any sense in fighting and fighting and fighting, yet always losing through some derned old lunkhead of a general.” A sarcastic man who was tramping at the youth’s side, then spoke lazily. "Mebbe yeh think yeh fit th’ hull battle yestirday, Fleming,” he remarked. The speech pierced the youth. Inwardly he was reduced to an adject pulp by these chance words. His legs quaked privately. He cast a frightened glance at the sarcastic man. "Why, no,” he hastened to say in a conciliating voice "I don’t think I fought the whole battle yesterday.” Which phrase best explains how the characters’ conflicting perspectives are presented in this excerpt?
Which words complete the sentence correctly? In recent years, engineers have invented a __________ capable of __________ offensive language from live television feeds.
Read the lines from "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song, then look at the artwork by Kitagawa Utamaro. Her hair is black with hints of red, the color of seaweed spread over rocks. Morning begins the ritual wheel of the body, the application of translucent skins. She practices pleasure: the pressure of three fingertips applying powder. Fingerprints of pollen some other hand will trace. The peach-dyed kimono patterned with maple leaves drifting across the silk, falls from right to left in a diagonal, revealing the nape of her neck and the curve of a shoulder like the slope of a hill set deep in snow in a country of huge white solemn birds. Her face appears in the mirror, a reflection in a winter pond, rising to meet itself. Expand Image Which statement best compares the use of imagery and color in the poem and artwork to portray the woman?
Which excerpt from the poem "Girl Powdering Her Neck” by Cathy Song is an example of a simile?
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