unit 1
famous
what is renowned?
vermilion
dyed
inured
harsh treatment
vexation
a state of aggravation
connotation
invokes addition to actual meaning
Read the excerpt from Physiologus.
Then when the crafty fiend perceives that men,
Encamped upon him, making their abode,
Enjoy the gentle weather, suddenly
Under the salty waves he plunges down,
Straight to the bottom deep he drags his prey;
He, guest of ocean, in his watery haunts
Drowns ships and men, and fast imprisons them
Within the halls of death.
Which options most accurately explain the implicit meaning of this passage?
Satan enchants the seamen by luring them into what they think is a safe shelter. However, Satan is only deceiving and tempting them, so once they give in, he can claim their souls and drag them to hell.
Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide
Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices,
Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
Call countrey ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knowes, nor clyme,
Nor houres, dayes, moneths, which are the rags of time.
Which words from the text most effectively help indicate the meaning of the word pedantic (spelled pedantique here) as it is used in this passage?
Busie old fool
As the news of my arrival spread through the kingdom, it brought prodigious numbers of rich, idle, and curious people to see me; so that the villages were almost emptied; and great neglect of tillage and household affairs must have ensued ...
Which context clue from this sentence would be most helpful in determining the meaning of prodigious?
The clause “so that the villages were almost emptied” suggests that almost everyone in the kingdom visited Gulliver.
“I did not call you that!” Neil yelled at Tim from across the room. “You think you know everything just because you’re a year older than me.” Neil stepped closer to his older brother. “And I’ve had it with you and your stupid lies!” He turned and stomped toward the door.
“You’ve had it with me?” Tim asked contemptuously, jabbing his finger first toward Neil and then toward himself. “Just so you know, li’l bro,” Tim growled, “I will not forget this.”
Which options provide the correct definition of contemptuously as it is used in the passage?
showing inadequacy
The tangled bine-stems scored the sky
Like strings from broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
Had sought their household fires.
Which option accurately uses the word scored as it is used in this sentence?
Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.
Which options most effectively explain why Christ, or the Panther, is portrayed as having a “sweet odor” in Physiologus?
“Sweet odor” depicts Christ’s unwavering belief in humankind.
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate.
Which option most accurately explains the meaning of the simile and then my state / Like to the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth?
The speaker refers to the rise in his spirits as he thinks of his lover, his mood elevating like the ascent of a bird from the earth.
the sixth, I made a countenance as if I would eat him alive. The poor man squalled terribly, and the colonel and his officers were in much pain, especially when they saw me take out my penknife: but I soon put them out of fear; for, looking mildly, and immediately cutting the strings he was bound with, I set him gently on the ground, and away he ran.
How do Gulliver’s actions affect the Lilliputians’ opinion of him?
They view Gulliver’s actions as noble, which encourages them to treat him with more kindness and leniency.
“Now! Now!” cried the Queen. “Faster! Faster!” And they went so fast that at last they seemed to skim through the air, hardly touching the ground with their feet, till suddenly, just as Alice was getting quite exhausted, they stopped, and she found herself sitting on the ground, breathless and giddy.
Which option is the most accurate definition of giddy as it is used in the excerpt?
dizzy
The land’s sharp features seemed to be
The Century’s corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
Seemed fervourless as I.
Which options accurately state strategies a student can use to infer the meaning of the word fervourless?
By adding the suffix -less to the root word fervour, which means “great passion and enthusiasm,” a student can assume that fervourless likely means “lacking warmth or feeling.”
Read the excerpt from Physiologus.
The partridge lays no eggs,
Nor builds a dwelling; but instead, she steals
The well-wrought nests of others. There she sits,
Warming a stranger brood, until at last
The eggs are hatched. But when the stolen chicks
Are fledged, they straightway fly away to seek
Their proper kin, and leave the partridge there
Forsaken. In such wise the devil works
To steal the souls of those whose youthful minds
Or foolish hearts in vain resist his wiles.
But when they reach maturer age, they see
They are true children of the Lord of lords.
Then they desert the lying fiend, and seek
Their rightful Father, who with open arms
Receives them, as he long since promised them.
Which option most accurately states an inference that can be made about the story of the “stolen chicks”?
Though people often stray from God and are tricked by Satan, they can always turn back from a life of sin to a life with “Their rightful Father.”
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
Which options most effectively explain why the speaker of the poem describes hours, days, and months as the rags of time?
The phrase sets up a contrast between the eternity of love and the transience of time.
“1st, The man-mountain shall not depart from our dominions, without our license under our great seal.
“2d, He shall not presume to come into our metropolis, without our express order; at which time, the inhabitants shall have two hours warning to keep within doors.”
Which option most accurately explains how these conditions contribute to the tone of the narrative?
The conditions are written in a serious manner, contributing to the self-important tone.
“They can’t be bees—nobody ever saw bees a mile off, you know—” and for some time she stood silent, watching one of them that was bustling about among the flowers, poking its proboscis into them, “just as if it was a regular bee,” thought Alice.
However, this was anything but a regular bee: in fact it was an elephant—as Alice soon found out, though the idea quite took her breath away at first.
What option most accurately explains the purpose of using the term proboscis in the excerpt?
The term proboscis refers to both a bee’s tongue and an elephant’s trunk, so it indicates that Alice could be seeing either.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
Which words in the lines provide the most effective context clues for defining the word breadth?
height
Read the excerpt from Physiologus.
Such is the way
Of demons, devils’ wiles: to hide their power,
And stealthily inveigle heedless men,
Inciting them against all worthy deeds,
And luring them to seek for help and comfort
From unsuspected foes, until at last
They choose a dwelling with the faithless one.
Which response most accurately describes how Satan baits his victims, based on this evidence?
Satan deceives his victims by tricking them into blindly believing his lies and following in his path.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
Which options most accurately identify the figurative language shown by the phrases eye of heaven and often is his gold complexion dimmed?
metaphor
Which option most accurately depicts an example of irony from Gulliver’s Travels that lends itself to the satirical tone of the text?
The emperor is described as large and striking terror in others.
“Well, there’s the Horse-fly,” Alice began, counting off the names on her fingers.
“All right,” said the Gnat: “half way up that bush, you’ll see a Rocking-horse-fly, if you look.”…
“And there’s the Dragon-fly.”
“Look on the branch above your head,” said the Gnat, “and there you’ll find a snap-dragon-fly.” …
“And then there’s the Butterfly,” … Alice went on.
“Crawling at your feet,” said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), “you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly.”
Which options accurately explain the characters’ different versions of insect names in the excerpts?
Alice’s insect names represent real insects, but the Gnat’s insect names represent insects that don’t exist in the real world.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Which options most accurately explain the meaning of “the valley of Death” as it is used in the excerpt?
This phrase depicts the grim situation and frightful possibilities that await the men on the battlefield.