Read the sentences.The wind whipped the branches into a frenzy. It looked like the tree was doing a crazy dance.
Read the sentence.The shop next door, which is family owned, creates specially made, chocolate covered desserts.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act III, Scene iv.Gertrude: What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!Polonius: [Behind.] What, ho! help! help! help!Hamlet: [Draws.] How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! [Makes a pass through the arras.]Polonius: [Behind.] O! I am slain.Gertrude: O me! what hast thou done?Hamlet: Nay, I know not: is it the king?Gertrude: O! what a rash and bloody deed is this!
If Kaya wanted to analyze the development of the central ideas in The Farewell Speech, which questions should she ask herself? Select three options.
Read the paragraph from Gordon’s personal narrative.1 When I first entered the room, I was really struck by what I saw. 2 It was my first day of cooking lessons, and I was on my way to fulfilling my dreams of one day becoming a chef in my own world-renowned restaurant. 3 I had spent countless hours of my childhood watching my parents, both professional chefs, prepare delicious meals. 4 From them, I had already obtained a solid foundation of cooking basics. 5 However, it was in this room that I would build upon those basics and begin my ascent as a chef in my own right.
Which phrases provide clues that sepulchre means "grave”? Choose three answers.
Read the last stanza of "Mutability.”It is the same!—For, be it joy or sorrow, The path of its departure still is free: Man’s yesterday may ne’er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.There is no concept of "health and safety" in Elizabethan England, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. Nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. People die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. Infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. Even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. On top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common.
Which topics would be most important for a student to include in an essay about philosophy in English literature?
Which excerpts from Act III of Hamlet show that plot events have resulted in Claudius feeling guilty? Select 3 options.
Which line from "Ode to the West Wind" is an example of a metaphor?
Which line from "She Walks in Beauty" describes the woman in an unusual way?
Read the excerpt from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference. Even then he scarcely understood what this indicated, until he heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial—hollow—with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylinder was unscrewing the top!
Read the sentence.We took a long walk along the path beside the bubbling stream.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: What! has this thing appear’d again to-night?Bernardo: I have seen nothing.Marcellus: Horatio says ’tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night;
Which lines best complete the sentence? Select 3 options.Grendel, by John Gardner, is written
How does the play-within-a-play in Act III of Hamlet represent Elizabethan drama?
Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet.Ghost: Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebona in a vial,And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body.
Read the haiku by Buson.Lighting the lantern—the yellow chrysanthemumslose their color.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow.Rosencrantz: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
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