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Read the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's speeches.Which best describes a difference in the types of rhetorical appeals used by Queen Elizabeth in these excerpts from her Address to the Troops at Tilbury and Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry?

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to convince the troops of her capabilities as a leader. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to make members feel ashamed of their request.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to convince the troops of her capabilities as a leader. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to make members feel ashamed of their request.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to inspire and encourage her army. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to provide rational explanations that convince lawmakers.

When speaking to her troops, Queen Elizabeth appeals to pathos to inspire and encourage her army. When speaking to Parliament, Queen Elizabeth appeals to logos to provide rational explanations that convince lawmakers.

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Read the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry.As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks for the good zeal and loving care you seem to have, as well towards me as to the whole estate of your country.

encouraging an emotional response from the audience.

establishing her credibility as a capable leader.

providing a logical reason for trusting her leadership skills.

demonstrating her ability to speak persuasively.

Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.Dear brethren, God forgive you your trespass,And keep you from the sin of avarice;My holy pardon here can save you all,And will, so long as you make offeringsOf gold and silver coin, spoons, brooches, rings—Bow down your heads before this holy bull!Come, ladies, make an offering of your wool!I’ll put your name down on my prayer-roll,And you shall enter to the bliss of heaven

Chaucer criticizes the practice of confessing one’s sins to a priest.

Chaucer criticizes the notion that divine forgiveness depends on giving money.

Chaucer criticizes the idea that people go to heaven after death.

Chaucer criticizes the fact that clergymen earn more than peasants.

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time, And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it . . . That we would do, We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents; And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing. But, to the quick o' the ulcer; Hamlet comes back; what would you undertake To show yourself your father's son in deed More than in words?

encourages Laertes to seek revenge against Hamlet.

offers forgiveness for Laertes’s impulsive action.

suggests a peaceful resolution to Laertes’s conflict.

accepts the blame for Polonius’s death.

Characterization is the way an author

unfolds a sequence of events within a story.

describes the features of a physical environment.

illustrates the time period in which a tale takes place.

develops personalities through thoughts, words, and actions.

Read the excerpts from Queen Elizabeth's speeches.How does the purpose of the excerpt from Queen Elizabeth's Address to the Troops at Tilbury compare to the excerpt from Response to Parliament's Request That She Marry?

Both excerpts inform Queen Elizabeth's audience of her strategic plans for engaging and defeating the invading army.

Both excerpts attempt to persuade Queen Elizabeth's audience that she is willing to sacrifice her life for England's well-being.

Both excerpts inform Queen Elizabeth's audience of the reasons she has come to passionately love and defend England.

Both excerpts attempt to persuade Queen Elizabeth's audience that she is the most capable ruler the country has known.

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:My lord, you once did love me.Hamlet:So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.Rosencrantz:Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend.Hamlet:Sir, I lack advancement.Rosencrantz:How can that be when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? Hamlet: Ay, sir, but ‘While the grass grows,’—the proverb is something musty.

his loyalty to his ally endures hardship.

his erratic behavior confuses his friend.

his desire for revenge defines him.

his quest for political power is unwavering.

Read the excerpt from an analysis of the end of Act V of Hamlet.A duel takes place between Laertes and Hamlet. But due to treachery, Laertes and Hamlet are poisoned, as are Claudius and Gertrude, and they all die.

Revenge never works out, and people should just avoid it.

Fighting is not the way to solve problems, no matter what.

Those who fight are unwise and would do better to talk.

Those who pursue revenge are often destroyed by it.

Which statements describe the Middle Ages? Choose four answers.It was a period of time between 500 and 1500 CE.It was a period characterized by democratic rule.Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe.The monarchy and the Church were very powerful.A rising middle class was challenging class distinctions.

It was a period of time between 500 and 1500 CE.

It was a period characterized by democratic rule.

Catholicism was the dominant religion in Europe.

The monarchy and the Church were very powerful.

A rising middle class was challenging class distinctions.

Read the excerpt from a paper about Hamlet.The relationship between Horatio and Hamlet is crucial to understanding the play. Whereas most people would have abandoned Hamlet, Horatio instead repeatedly aids Hamlet in a variety of ways. Even when Hamlet dies, Horatio makes sure that Hamlet’s wishes are carried out and his side of the story is told.

All is fair in love and war.

Be kind to those in need.

The truth will set you free.

True friends don’t leave you.

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Danes: [Within.] Let her come in.Laertes: How now! what noise is that?Re-enter OPHELIA.O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! O heavens! is 't possible a young maid's wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life? Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.

Laertes’s shock at his sister’s condition fuels his anger.

Laertes’s disappointment in Ophelia makes him judgmental.

Laertes’s sadness about his sister’s state weakens his resolve.

Laertes’s sorrow about Ophelia renders him melancholy.

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy; On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.

delight

prosperity

fashion

footwear

Which statements describe Elizabethan drama? Select two answers.Plays address secular themes.Miracle plays tell the stories of Christian saints.Actors portray emotions that reflect life experiences.Plays include Biblical characters in present-day settings.Flat characters represent single concepts, such as “justice.”

Plays address secular themes.

Miracle plays tell the stories of Christian saints.

Actors portray emotions that reflect life experiences.

Plays include Biblical characters in present-day settings.

Flat characters represent single concepts, such as “justice.”

Which ideas describe a round character? Select three answers. The character experiences a variety of human emotions.The character represents a single idea or concept.The character possesses a complex personality.The character acts as a predictable personality type.The character grows or develops over the course of a play.

The character experiences a variety of human emotions.

The character represents a single idea or concept.

The character possesses a complex personality.

The character acts as a predictable personality type.

The character grows or develops over the course of a play.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’dHis canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in naturePossess it merely. That it should come to this!

face both conflict and tragedy but will keep a sense of humor.

be involved in conflict but the story will have a happy ending.

become a tragic hero and the story will have an unhappy ending.

face tragedy but will pull through and resolve his conflicts.

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