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QuizMultiple Choice

Part 1: An Introduction to Elizabethan England

Question 5 • *HSA 26-27 English IV A -IC

Which of these excerpts from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England is related from the second-person point of view?

Answer
A
Hills might feature in an Elizabethan writer’s description of a county because of their potential for sheep grazing . . .
B
Those things that Elizabethans take for granted are precisely what you will find most striking . . .
C
Before this, they do not need such a word, for they do not see a “landscape” as such . . .
D
Shakespeare does not use the word “landscape” at all; he uses the word “country” . . .

Explanation

Second-person point of view addresses the reader as “you.” Choice B says “you will find,” directly speaking to the reader. The other excerpts refer to Elizabethans, writers, or Shakespeare in the third person.

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