Exam example #6717

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, what plot event prompts Hamlet to become suspicious and resentful?

Read the excerpt from Morte d'Arthur by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.So like a shatter'd column lay the King;Not like that Arthur who, with lance in rest,From spur to plume a star of tournament,Shot thro' the lists at Camelot, and chargedBefore the eyes of ladies and of kings.

the current state of the king.

Read the statement about Swift's A Modest Proposal.Swift artfully uses language to convey the undeniable fact that landlords have consistently mistreated the impoverished and already devoured most of the parents who would serve as breeders.

To analyze tone, the reader should study word choice, which is also called

To make a compound sentence, a writer uses a to connect two independent clauses.

Read the excerpt from Utopia.If these metals were laid up in any tower in the kingdom it would raise a jealousy of the Prince and Senate, and give birth to that foolish mistrust into which the people are apt to fall—a jealousy of their intending to sacrifice the interest of the public to their own private advantage. If they should work it into vessels, or any sort of plate, they fear that the people might grow too fond of it, and so be unwilling to let the plate be run down, if a war made it necessary, to employ it in paying their soldiers. To prevent all these inconveniences they have fallen upon an expedient which, as it agrees with their other policy, so is it very different from ours, and will scarce gain belief among us who value gold so much, and lay it up so carefully. They eat and drink out of vessels of earth or glass, which make an agreeable appearance, though formed of brittle materials; while they make their chamber-pots and close-stools of gold and silver, and that not only in their public halls but in their private houses. Of the same metals they likewise make chains and fetters for their slaves, to some of which, as a badge of infamy, they hang an earring of gold, and make others wear a chain or a coronet of the same metal . . .

Laertes: For he himself is subject to his birth; He may not, as unvalu'd persons do, Carve for himself, for on his choice dependsThe safety and the health of the whole state; And therefore must his choice be circumscrib'd Unto the voice and yielding of that body Whereof he is the head.

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?

Read the literary analysis paragraph.Shakespeare's writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape. His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors. In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like ruthless, vast, and gloomy to describe forests. Although he is known as the playwright's playwright, Shakespeare could have been a travel guide.

Which best describes how the two adaptations of Hamlet differ?

Read the excerpt from Gilgamesh: A New English Version.Let your heart inspire youto be joyous in battle, to forget about death.If we help each other and fight side by side,we will make a lasting name for ourselves,we will stamp our fame on men's minds forever.

Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. And, now that more equitable laws are forming your citizens, marriage may become more sacred: your young men may choose wives from motives of affection, and your maidens allow love to root out vanity.The father of a family will not then weaken his constitution and debase his sentiments, by visiting the harlot, nor forget, in obeying the call of appetite, the purpose for which it was implanted. And, the mother will not neglect her children to practise the arts of coquetry, when sense and modesty secure her the friendship of her husband.

Utopia reflects the time in which it was written because

Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. And, now that more equitable laws are forming your citizens, marriage may become more sacred: your young men may choose wives from motives of affection, and your maidens allow love to root out vanity.The father of a family will not then weaken his constitution and debase his sentiments, by visiting the harlot, nor forget, in obeying the call of appetite, the purpose for which it was implanted. And, the mother will not neglect her children to practise the arts of coquetry, when sense and modesty secure her the friendship of her husband.

Which qualities define an epic hero? Check all that apply.

Read the sentence.The team won the majority of the regular season games, so they were optimistic about a victorious post-season.

If Shakespeare kills the character of Hamlet, what dramatic convention would he be using?

Consider the excerpt and theme from Gilgamesh: A New English Version.Gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop,he poured out flour as an offering and said,Mountain, bring me a favorable dream.Enkidu did the ritual for dreams,praying for a sign. A gust of windpassed. He built a shelter for the night,placed Gilgamesh on the floor and spreada magic circle of flour around him,then sprawled like a net across the doorway.Theme One: Great leaders seek supernatural help

Read the excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.But, sirs, it is not courteous of youTo speak so roughly to an old man, whoHas not offended you by word or deed.It's there in Holy Writ for you to read:Thou shalt rise up before the hoary headOf an old man—and therefore do no harm,I warn you, to an old man while you're young,Any more than you'd like to have it doneTo you in old age, should you live so long.Now God be with you! I go where I must go.

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: Am I not i' the right, old Jephthah?Polonius: If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.

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.

Jamal's assignment for class is to write his own verse to add to Beowulf, using some of the traditions that were used in Old English poetry.

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?

What should a reflection do in a narrative essay? Check all that apply.