Which line from Utopia is an example of an analogy?
In the Middle Ages, an indulgence was
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.Thus I know how to preach against the vice Which masters me—and that is avarice.Though I myself am guilty of the sin,I know how to make other people turnFrom avarice, and bitterly repent.
Which sentence uses a participial phrase correctly?
Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The King, bold by nature,Went up to that huge manAnd said, "Knight, by heaven, your request is senseless.What you ask is such madness you deserve to have it granted.No knight I know is afraid of your great words.Give me your ax now, in the name of God,And I shall grant the boon that you have requested.”He strides toward him and grasps him by the hand.
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales."Think what a safeguard it must be for youThat I, who can absolve both high and lowWhen soul from body is about to go,Should chance to fall in with your company!Let me suggest that our host here begin,Since he’s the one who’s most wrapped up in sin.Step forward, Mister Host—your offering first,And you can kiss the relics, every one!All for a penny! Out now with your purse!”
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales."God’s arms!” exclaimed one of these debauchees,"Is the fellow then so dangerous to meet?In highways and in byways, street by street,I’ll seek him out, I vow it on God’s bones.Now listen, fellows: let us three be one,Each of us hold his hand up to the other,And each of us become the other’s brother,And we will kill this black betrayer, Death,And kill the killer, by God’s holy breath,And that before the sun goes down on us!”
Read the excerpt from Utopia.The Utopians wonder how any man should be so much taken with the glaring doubtful lustre of a jewel or a stone, that can look up to a star or to the sun himself; or how any should value himself because his cloth is made of a finer thread; for, how fine soever that thread may be, it was once no better than the fleece of a sheep, and that sheep, was a sheep still, for all its wearing it. They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed that even man, for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal . . .
Which are true about participles? Check all that apply.
When a sentence includes a participial phrase, the phrase functions as a(n):
Which sentence contains a gerund?
find details to support the author’s central idealook to discover the text’s most important ideaexamine and explain their position on a central ideawrite an analogy that explains the text’s main idea
Thomas More wrote Utopia during a period of
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