Unit 1
What does meandered mean?
Unit 1, Lesson 2
wander, walk etc.
What does prerogative mean?
Unit 2, Lesson 9
an exclusive or special right or privilege
What does obstinacy mean?
Unit 3, Lesson 15
quality of being stubborn or persistent in a course of action
What does forte mean?
Unit 4, Lesson 18
strong point or specialty; area in which one excels
What does surreptitiously mean?
Unit 5, Lesson 22
stealthily or secretively
What does archetype define?
Unit 1, Lesson 6
An archetype is a character, situation, or symbol that commonly occurs in literature and represents universal patterns or characteristics.
Read the paragraph.
A massive number of refugees formed a column hundreds of miles long, it seemed. It moved slowly through deserted villages and along the bloody rivers. Horror and shock filled everyone’s eyes as a deadly silence hovered over this refugee column. I saw newborn babies die, people laugh in hysteria, elders wail. I saw disarmed and defeated soldiers, and mothers futilely looking for their wandering children. Horror after horror formed a chain of disasters in my memory, and on the third day of our exile, I wept.
Which options most effectively identify the narrative elements depicted in the passage?
Unit 2, Lesson 9
Tone and setting
What are the two types of characterizations?
Unit 3, Lesson 13
direct and indirect
What are the different types of irony?
Unit 4, Lesson 16
verbal, dramatic, and situational
What are the ways poems can be depicted?
Unit 5, Lesson 24
painting or audio recording
Read the lines from the poem “Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale.”
When two hearts meet in a dim solitude,
That thrills the soul e’en to the finger-tips,
And brings the heart’s dear secrets to the lips.
Which response most clearly shows how a student could determine the meaning of the word solitude by finding information in reference materials?
The student could use the root sol-, which is also found in solo, to infer that solitude means “state of being alone.”
Which lines from a Shakespearean sonnet best exemplify the use of hyperbole?
If this be error and upon me proved, /
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
How does the setting of Ivanhoe’s prison chamber help develop the interaction between Rebecca and Ivanhoe?
It forces Rebecca to describe the battle outside the castle, since Ivanhoe is wounded and unable to stand to watch the battle for himself.
In “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” Sherlock Holmes determines that Dr. Roylott is responsible for killing his stepdaughter.
Which options provide the most effective evidence to support Holmes’s conclusion that Dr. Roylott is guilty of murder?
(Select all that apply.)
“An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary in order that he should reach the ventilator.”
“The idea of using a form of poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless man who had had an Eastern training.”
Much of the humor in “Strychnine in the Soup” stems from the author’s use of implied meanings.
Which option most accurately identifies an example of sarcasm?
Cyril’s comment that he wouldn’t be likely to “move in the same social circles as charging rhinoceri”
Read the lines from the poem “Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairy Tale.”
When two hearts meet in a dim solitude,
That thrills the soul e’en to the finger-tips,
And brings the heart’s dear secrets to the lips.
Which response most clearly shows how a student could determine the meaning of the word solitude by finding information in reference materials?
Sedate means that the king is resting, untroubled and calm, while sober would make him sound serious or grim.
Read the lines from John Donne’s “The Sunne Rising.”
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?
(Select all that apply.)
Busie old fool
Goe chide
Read the paragraph from Ivanhoe.
“Rebecca,” said Ivanhoe, “thou hast painted a hero; surely they rest but to refresh their force, or to provide the means of crossing the moat—Under such a leader as thou hast spoken this knight to be, there are no craven fears, no cold-blooded delays, no yielding up a gallant emprise; since the difficulties which render it arduous render it also glorious. I swear by the honor of my house—I vow by the name of my bright lady-love, I would endure ten years’ captivity to fight one day by that good knight’s side in such a quarrel as this!”
In which sentence is the word arduous used in a similar manner as in the paragraph?
The group began the arduous climb up the rock face, which would require some difficult maneuvers and would take many hours to complete.
Read the excerpt from “The Darkling Thrush.”
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.
Read the excerpt from “Strychnine in the Soup,” in which Mr. Mulliner explains the ending of a mystery novel to a bar patron who is anxious to know the conclusion of the story.
“The plumber forgot his snake and had to go back for it,” explained Mr. Mulliner. ‘‘I trust that this revelation will prove sedative.”
“I feel a new man,” said the Draught Stout. “I’d have lain awake worrying about that murder all night.”
Which option most accurately explains how a student who did not know the meaning of sedative could infer its definition?
The student could use the words “a new man” to infer that sedative refers to something that helps relieve worry.
Use reference materials to search for the meaning of the word gentility.
Which sentence uses the word gentility correctly?
Lady Elizabeth’s fine manners were characterized by both gentility and courtesy.
Which descriptions from characters in The Tempest most effectively add a sinister tone to the play?
PROSPERO
Thou best know’st
What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts
Of ever-angry bears: it was a torment
To lay upon the damned, which Sycorax
Could not again undo: it was mine art,
When I arrived and heard thee, that made gape
The pine, and let thee out.
ARIEL
Not a soul
But felt a fever of the mad, and played
Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners
Plunged in the foaming brine, and quit the vessel,
Then all afire with me. The King’s son, Ferdinand,
With hair upstaring—then like reeds, not hair —
Was the first man that leaped; cried, ‘Hell is empty,
And all the devils are here.’
Which excerpt from Ivanhoe communicates a hopeful tone and shows Wilfred of Ivanhoe’s confidence that the castle will be seized by the attacking forces?
“Our friends,” said Wilfred, “will surely not abandon an enterprise so gloriously begun and so happily attained.—O no! I will put my faith in the good knight whose axe hath rent heart-of-oak and bars of iron.—Singular,” he again muttered to himself …
“The Adventure of the Speckled Band” presents many uncertainties, one being the exact nature of the “speckled band” in Helen’s story.
Which option most accurately explains how Helen’s mention of a “speckled band” heightens the mystery in this story?
Multiple elements of the story, such as the gypsies who wear spotted handkerchiefs, might be interpreted as being related to a “speckled band,” providing an intriguing set of possible answers.
In “Strychnine in the Soup,” consider the final confrontation between Cyril and Lady Bassett, during which he refuses to return her book until she consents to his marriage to Amelia.
Which option most accurately explains how this interaction represents a major moment for Cyril’s character?
Until this point, Cyril has remained meek and submissive. However, his quick thinking and sly actions reveal that he possesses inner cunning and boldness, which he then finds himself embracing.