Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The knight on his horse turned in his saddle,And wildly he flashed his red eyes around,Arched his bristling bright-green eyebrows,And waved his beard, waiting to see who would stand up.When no one would answer him, he gave a loud coughAnd stretched as a lord might, and made ready to speak.
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Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.They went on staring at the knight for some time,Everyone wondering what it might meanFor a man and a horse to acquire such a color,As green as the grass grows, and greener still, it seemed,The green enamel glowing brighter on the gold.All of them standing there stared and crept closer to himWith all the wonder in the world, to see what he would do.For they had seen many marvels but never any like this,So they all thought it might be a phantom or trick of magic,So that many of the noble knights were afraid to answer,And all were struck by his voice and stayed stone still,And there was a silence like death through the great hall.Not a sound rose out of them, as though they hadall fallen asleep.
Read the sentence.The teenagers went to town to muse over whether going to college or to university was the better choice.
Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.For I’ll have money, wool, and cheese, and wheat,Though given by the poorest serving-lad,Or by the poorest widow in the place,Were all her children dying of famine,No, no! I’ll drink the ichor of the vine,And have a pretty girl in every town.But hear me out now, gentlemen . . .
Read the sentence.Once the scientist completed to assemble the components, she tested her new device to see if it performed as expected.
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England.The underlying reasons for such differences are not hard to find. In a society in which people still starve to death, an orchard is not a beautiful thing in itself: its beauty lies in the fact that it produces apples and cider. A wide flat field is "finer” than rugged terrain for it can be tilled easily to produce wheat and so represents good white bread. A small thatched cottage, which a modern viewer might consider pretty, will be considered unattractive by an Elizabethan traveler, for cottagers are generally poor and able to offer little in the way of hospitality. Ranges of hills and mountains are obstacles to Elizabethan travelers and very far from picturesque features you go out of your way to see. Hills might feature in an Elizabethan writer’s description of a county because of their potential for sheep grazing, but on the whole he will be more concerned with listing all the houses of the gentry, their seats and parks.
Read the sentence.A performer must create a dynamic connection to shine on the stage.
Which excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury rely on a rhetorical appeal to ethos to persuade soldiers that she is a capable commander? Select two options.
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Read the excerpt from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."By God,” the Green Knight said, "I am gladThat I shall have from your hand what I asked for here,And that you have repeated fully, in your own words,The whole of the covenant I asked of the King:Only now you must swear to me, upon your word,That you will expect, for yourself, wherever you manageTo find me on earth, to be repaid in kindFor what you accord me today before this high company.”
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