AnswersTX-English IVPart 2: Summarizing Central Ideas about Elizabethan England

Part 3: Text Structure in an Informational Text Answers

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Which excerpt most effectively conveys a conversational and engaging tone?

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"Although many players visit Stratford in Shakespeare’s youth, the town’s corporation prohibits traveling actors from performing there in 1602."
B
"The Lord Admiral’s Men have Edward Alleyn: a very tall and powerful man who roars his part as he crosses the stage."
C
"You will see people standing in hats with pipes in hand, and women in their headdresses, all chatting, with an eye open for people they know."
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"There are two large columns, both elaborately painted, which support the roof that covers the back of the stage."
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.In 1587 Thomas Kyd produces The Spanish Tragedy, and soon afterward Christopher Marlowe brings out the first part of Tamburlaine the Great. . . . They employ new verse forms, allowing different spoken rhythms, and compose bold speeches with greater resonance and meaning. The new conceptual framework of a revenge tragedy in particular allows them to portray powerful emotions voiced by strong characters. Suddenly it is possible to show so much more passion on the stage.

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the play The Spanish Tragedy
B
the new verse forms and conceptual framework
C
the collaboration of Kyd and Marlowe
D
the play Tamburlaine the Great
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Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.By the end of the reign he [Jonson] has married, had two children and lost one, tried to become an actor and failed, become a playwright, been arrested for a scurrilous play and released, killed another actor in a duel, been arrested again and put on trial for murder, and escaped hanging by pleading benefit of the clergy. The play for which he is arrested, The Isle of Dogs, coauthored with Thomas Nashe, is so slanderous and offensive that the privy council orders the closure not just of the play but of every theater in London.

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Jonson becoming a playwright
B
Jonson and Nashe writing The Isle of Dogs
C
the clergy pardoning Jonson
D
the actor being killed in a duel
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Which of the following sentences signals a sequence of events?

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"Unfortunately this is located too far from the city . . ."
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"The queen continues to encourage dramatic art . . ."
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"Eight years later Francis Langley erects the Swan . . ."
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"Thomas Nashe brings forth his masterpiece . . ."

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