Read the excerpt from Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.I talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them.What effect does the style of this long sentence achieve?
Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea is a
Both Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea and Spiegelman’s Maus relate events of the Holocaust
Which best describes Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea?
“They come after you. They take your home. They take your sisters.” “I don’t believe it,” Passini said. “They can’t do that to everybody. Let everybody defend his home. Let them keep their sisters in the house.” “They hang you. They come and make you be a soldier again. Not in the auto-ambulance, in the infantry.”
A strong thesis statement must
It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.
Read the excerpt from Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.My own house was an eyesore, but it was a small eyesore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires—all for eighty dollars a month.Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there.The contrast created between East Egg and West Egg suggests that
Why were those trains allowed to roll unhindered into Poland? Why were the tracks leading to Birkenau never bombed? I have put these questions to American presidents and generals and to high-ranking Soviet officers. Since Moscow and Washington knew what the killers were doing in the death camps, why was nothing done at least to slow down their “production”? That not a single Allied military aircraft ever tried to destroy the rail lines converging on Auschwitz remains an outrageous enigma to me. Birkenau was “processing” ten thousand Jews a day. Stopping a single convoy for a single night—or even for just a few hours—would have prolonged so many lives.
Read the excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier's Home.”In the evening he practiced on his clarinet, strolled down town, read and went to bed. He was still a hero to his two young sisters. His mother would have given him breakfast in bed if he had wanted it. She often came in when he was in bed and asked him to tell her about the war, but her attention always wandered.What important detail about Krebs’s sisters and mother is revealed?
Read the passage.The Blackwood Manor had always been a place of darkness and despair, its once-grand halls now crumbling into ruin. For generations, the family had been plagued by madness and tragedy, each heir to the estate more tormented than the last. But none were as haunted as Delilah Blackwood, the current mistress of the manor. With her sunken eyes, pallid skin, and tangled black hair, she cuts an eerie, ghostly figure as she wanders the decaying halls of her once-grand ancestral home. The manor itself seems to whisper dark secrets, the shadows shifting and writhing as if alive with malevolent spirits. Delilah can feel their presence, the weight of her family's sins pressing down upon her like a physical force. At night, the manor comes alive with unearthly howls and the sound of shattering glass, as if the very walls are crying out in anguish. Delilah knows she should leave this cursed place, but she is bound to it by blood and by the demons that haunt her own mind. As she drifts through the manor's halls, she wonders if she will ever escape the darkness that has consumed her family for generations, or if she is doomed to become another tragic chapter in the Blackwood legacy.Which phrase is the best example of figurative language?
Read the excerpt from “Good Country People.”Mrs. Hopewell liked to tell people...how she had happened to hire the Freemans in the first place and how they were a godsend to her and how she had had them four years. The reason for her keeping them so long was that they were...good country people...Before the Freemans she had averaged one tenant family a year...Mrs. Hopewell, who had divorced her husband long ago, needed someone to walk over the fields with her; and when Joy had to be impressed for these services, her remarks were usually so ugly and her face so glum... that Mrs. Hopewell would say, “If you can’t come pleasantly, I don’t want you at all,” to which the girl, standing square and rigid-shouldered with her neck thrust slightly forward, would reply, “If you want me, here I am—LIKE I AM.”Based on the excerpt, what inferences can be made about the story’s setting?
Read the passage.The Blackwood Manor had always been a place of darkness and despair, its once-grand halls now crumbling into ruin. For generations, the family had been plagued by madness and tragedy, each heir to the estate more tormented than the last. But none were as haunted as Delilah Blackwood, the current mistress of the manor. With her sunken eyes, pallid skin, and tangled black hair, she cuts an eerie, ghostly figure as she wanders the decaying halls of her once-grand ancestral home. The manor itself seems to whisper dark secrets, the shadows shifting and writhing as if alive with malevolent spirits. Delilah can feel their presence, the weight of her family's sins pressing down upon her like a physical force. At night, the manor comes alive with unearthly howls and the sound of shattering glass, as if the very walls are crying out in anguish. Delilah knows she should leave this cursed place, but she is bound to it by blood and by the demons that haunt her own mind. As she drifts through the manor's halls, she wonders if she will ever escape the darkness that has consumed her family for generations, or if she is doomed to become another tragic chapter in the Blackwood legacy.Which excerpt best exemplifies why Delilah is a traditional Southern gothic character?
Which excerpt from O’Connor’s “Good Country People” best reveals the irony of the main character’s name, Joy?
Read the passage.Camellias drooped from thick bushes, their once-pristine white petals browning in the oppressive summer heat. The heady fragrance of the flowers' decay hung like a veil over the crumbling antebellum mansion. Through shattered windows, faded brocade curtains undulated lazily, beckoning whispers of the home's faded opulence. In the shadowed recesses of the drawing room, young Henley Beauregard sat primly in a tattered hoop skirt, her pale hands folded over the worn damask. Her sunken eyes stared unseeingly at the thick coating of dust on the Chippendale table before her. She had been raised to make a prestigious match, to secure her family's legacy. Instead, she found herself the last raggedy branch on her family's withered tree, soon to be consumed by the relentless Southern earth, her fortunes and delicate beauty devoured without preamble.Which excerpt contains an example of irony?
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.Third, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them;Which approach best describes the tone of the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.Fifth, they desire to bring about the fullest collaboration between all nations in the economic field with the object of securing, for all, improved labor standards, economic advancement and social security;This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from the Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill.Sixth, after the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want;This statement is based on the assumption that
Read the excerpt from Rena Kornreich Gelissen’s Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz.That night changed everything. It had become dangerous for me to live in Tylicz. . . . Papa deliberated long and hard over whom to contact about smuggling me across the border.Andrzej had been fighting the Germans when Poland had first been invaded, but he’d been fortunate enough to escape capture; returning secretly to Tylicz, he was now working for the Polish resistance.Who knew the border better than Andrzej?...“I have a favor to ask of you, Andrzej . . . This is very difficult for me, but I must ask. It is no longer safe in Tylicz for Rena. Her mother and I are worried for her safety every day.”What assumptions can be made about the setting described in the excerpt?
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