English 12b
Which options accurately explain how the “General Prologue” of The Canterbury Tales sets up the rest of the narrative?
(Select all that apply.)
The “General Prologue” serves as a summary and conclusion of the pilgrims’ tales.
The “General Prologue” introduces all the characters who will have roles in the pilgrims’ tales.
The “General Prologue” acts as the point of highest drama and tension in the pilgrims’ tales.
The “General Prologue” functions as a frame narrative for the pilgrims’ tales.
Use reference materials to search for the meaning of the word gentility.
Which sentence uses the word gentility correctly?
Lady Elizabeth showed extreme gentility to her friends, with both her time and money.
Lady Elizabeth laid the baby down in her crib with gentility.
Lady Elizabeth’s obvious confidence was a sign of her gentility.
Lady Elizabeth’s fine manners were characterized by both gentility and courtesy.
The driver who caused the accident was accused of negligence because he was texting while driving.
Which word most accurately conveys the meaning of negligence?
corruption
carelessness
carefulness
confusion
Although Megan had not dusted the house in weeks, she felt hurt by her mother’s sharp reproof regarding her house-cleaning skills.
Which synonym most accurately conveys the meaning of reproof?
criticism
compliment
cruelty
comment
Our Host there checked his horse and said to all:
“My lords, now listen, if you will. Recall
The pact, as I remind you, made with me.
If evensong and matins both agree,
Let’s see now who shall tell us the first tale.”
Which option provides the most accurate definition for the word matins?
morning prayer
poetry
good friends
type of bird
Which lines from The Tempest accurately show how the characters influence one another throughout the play?
MIRANDA
O, my heart bleeds
To think o' th' teen that I have turned you to,
Which is from my remembrance!
Prospero claims that he is not motivated by a personal vendetta, but by a desire to get the nobles on the ship to repent.
Which lines most effectively support Prospero's claim?
PROSPERO
But this rough magic
I here abjure; and, when I have required
Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,—
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
Which lines most effectively contribute to the chaotic tone surrounding this shipwreck?
ARIEL
I flamed amazement: sometime I'd divide,
And burn in many places; on the topmast,
The yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,
Then meet and join.
Which descriptions from characters in The Tempest most effectively add a sinister tone to the play?
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.'
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.
Which answer most accurately explains the effect this story has on Miranda?
The story is disheartening to Miranda because she does not remember what happened, and she was not aware that they were exiled. Prospero's story also brings out Miranda's gentleness and love for him because she recognizes the extent of his sacrifice as he protected and raised her.
Which lines from the play effectively reveal how Prospero is using the island itself as part of his plan?
ARIEL
And, as thou bad'st me,
In troops I have dispersed them 'bout the isle.
The King's son have I landed by himself,
Whom I left cooling of the air with sighs
In an odd angle of the isle, and sitting,
His arms in this sad knot.
Which options effectively reveal how the author develops and relates the plot resolution through dialogue in The Tempest?
PROSPERO
But this rough magic
I here abjure; and, when I have required
Some heavenly music,—which even now I do,—
To work mine end upon their senses, that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And deeper than did ever plummet sound
I'll drown my book.
Thou liest, malignant thing. Hast thou forgot
The foul witch Sycorax, who with age and envy
Was grown into a hoop? Hast thou forgot her?
Which words most effectively help determine the meaning of malignant as it is used in the excerpt?
thou liest
Though with their high wrongs I am struck to th' quick,
Yet with my nobler reason 'gainst my fury
Do I take part: the rarer action is
In virtue than in vengeance: they being penitent,
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend
Not a frown further.
Which option provides the most accurate synonym for the word penitent as it is used in the passage?
remorseful
I have bedimmed
The noontide sun, called forth the mutinous winds.
And 'twixt the green sea and the azured vault
Set roaring war: to the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt; the strong-based promontory
Have I made shake, and by the spurs plucked up
The pine and cedar: graves at my command
Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth
By my so potent art.
Which words from the excerpt most effectively indicate the meaning of mutinous?
Set roaring war
Which options accurately explain how the author uses connotative meaning to depict a good soldier?
(Select all that apply.)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
The words "to reason why" suggest that a good soldier is one who thinks before taking action.
The words "to do and die" depict a good soldier as one who knows that completing his job comes before anything else.
The words "Someone had blunder'd" reveal that a good soldier is one who never makes foolish mistakes that cost others their lives.
The words "a man dismay'd/ Not tho' the soldier knew" suggest a good soldier is one who does not allow emotions to overtake him.
The words "to do and die" depict a good soldier as one who knows that completing his job comes before anything else.
The words "a man dismay'd/ Not tho' the soldier knew" suggest a good soldier is one who does not allow emotions to overtake him.
"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?
(Select all that apply.)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
This phrase is meant to represent the dry, hot battlefield.
This phrase is meant to represent the unrealized dreams of deceased soldiers.
This phrase depicts the grim situation and frightful possibilities that await the men on the battlefield.
This phrase is a biblical allusion to "the valley of the shadow of death," a place of imminent danger.
This phrase depicts the grim situation and frightful possibilities that await the men on the battlefield.
This phrase is a biblical allusion to "the valley of the shadow of death," a place of imminent danger.
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?
"The Darkling Thrush"
The soccer player ran swiftly and dodged the opposing team; skillfully, he scored the team's first goal.
Her gymnastics routine was filled with both skills and grace, and the judges scored her appropriately.
The band's first song was an instant hit; following its release the band scored numerous awards and promotional deals.
Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.
Cracks scored the concrete sidewalk, forcing the boys to skateboard carefully to school.
What's the best thing in the world?
Truth, not cruel to a friend;
Pleasure, not in haste to end;
Beauty, not self-decked and curled
Till its pride is over-plain.
Which options accurately explain the meaning of the personification in the lines?
(Select all that apply.)
"The Best Thing in the World"
The personification of truth as "not cruel to a friend" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of kind honesty.
The personification of truth as "not cruel to a friend" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of white lies.
The personification of beauty as "not self-decked and curled" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of simple, plain beauty.
The personification of beauty as "not self-decked and curled" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of personal confidence.
The personification of beauty as "not self-decked and curled" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of simple, plain beauty.
The personification of truth as "not cruel to a friend" reveals that the speaker believes in the virtue of kind honesty.
Which words in the lines provide the most effective context clues for defining the word breadth?
(Select all that apply.)
"How Do I Love Thee?"
depth
height
feeling
sight
depth
height
Which responses accurately explain why the author of High Fidelity introduces the setting of the record shop and the main characters of Rob and Barry by showing them arguing over the song "Walking on Sunshine"?
The dialogue demonstrates how tense and unhappy Rob is.
The dialogue introduces Barry as a dramatic foil or contrast to Rob.
The dialogue shows how immature Rob's companions are.
Meanwhile, the natural forces on the planet Vogsphere had been working overtime to make up for their earlier blunder. They brought forth scintillating jewelled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees with breathtaking slenderness and colour which the Vogons cut down and burned the crab meat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway.
Which response most clearly explains the tone created by the descriptive language in this passage?
Vivid language like "smashing their shells" and "their backs would snap instantly" creates a satirical tone by providing wildly overstated images of the Vogons' brutality and careless destruction.
Which response most completely explains how the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy develops the character of Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz in the story?
The author blends a historical summary into the exposition of the story so that the reader will understand the entire evolutionary history of the Vogons' cruelty before meeting Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz.
Ford, with a lightning movement, clapped his hand to Arthur's ear, and he had the sudden sickening sensation of the fish slithering deep into his aural tract.
Which response most accurately states how a student could determine the meaning of the word aural?
A student could infer that aural relates to hearing, because the fish goes into Arthur's ear.
England no longer existed. He'd got that—somehow he'd got it. He tried again. America, he thought, has gone. He couldn't grasp it. He decided to start smaller again. New York has gone. No reaction. He'd never seriously believed it existed anyway. The dollar, he thought, had sunk for ever. Slight tremor there. Every Bogart movie has been wiped, he said to himself, and that gave him a nasty knock. McDonald's, he thought. There is no longer any such thing as a McDonald's hamburger.
He passed out. When he came round a second later he found he was sobbing for his mother.
Which answer most clearly explains why Arthur's way of grieving for Earth is an example of satire?
His reaction implies that humans connect more deeply to entertainment and fast food than to countries or other people.