Which literary elements define narrative poetry? Select 4 options.rhythm and rhymeparagraphsfigurative languageplot and settingpunctuated sentencescharacters
In "The Caged Bird,” what is the speaker’s tone or attitude toward the subject of oppression? Choose three answers. angerconfusiondefianceindifferenceoutrage
Some sections of “Initiation” imply that Millicent will decline the sorority’s invitation.
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Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Ralph is speaking."Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then—”He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear."Then people started getting frightened.”A murmur, almost a moan, rose and passed away. Jack had stopped whittling. Ralph went on, abruptly."But that’s littluns’ talk. We’ll get that straight. So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear.”The hair was creeping into his eyes again."We’ve got to talk about this fear and decide there’s nothing in it. I’m frightened myself, sometimes; only that’s nonsense! Like bogies. Then, when we’ve decided, we can start again and be careful about things like the fire.” A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind. "And be happy.”
Read the excerpt from "Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Near them, on the sand,Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,Tell that its sculptor well those passions readWhich yet survive
Read the passage from “Initiation.”The door behind her opened and a ray of light sliced across the soft gloom of the basement room."Hey Millicent, come on out now. This is it." There were some of the girls outside."I'm coming," she said, getting up and moving out of the soft darkness into the glare of light, thinking: This is it, all right. The worst part, the hardest part, the part of initiation that I figured out myself.
What is the definition of perspective?
Which most likely helps you infer a character’s perspective?
Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: If they do see thee, they will murder thee.Romeo: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyeThan twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,And I am proof against their enmity.Juliet: I would not for the world they saw thee here.Romeo: I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;And but thou love me, let them find me here:My life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love
Read the following passage from "The Caged Bird.”But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped andhis feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.
Read the excerpts from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet."Pyramus and Thisbe"They owed their first encounters to their living close beside each other—but with time, love grows. Theirs did—indeed they wanted to be wed, but marriage was forbidden by their parents; yet there's one thing that parents can't prevent: the flame of love that burned in both of them.Romeo and JulietTwo households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.
Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".Pyramus had lefta little later than his Thisbe had,and he could see what surely were the tracksof a wild beast left clearly on deep dust.His face grew ashen. And when he had foundthe bloodstained shawl, he cried: "Now this same nightwill see two lovers lose their lives: she wasthe one more worthy of long life: it's Iwho bear the guilt for this.
What is personification?
Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.
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