Read the excerpt from act 4, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. The witches are awaiting Macbeth’s arrival. Second Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! Which mood does the phrase "Something wicked this way comes” most create?
Read the excerpt from Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington. The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house. Read the excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois. In answer to this, it has been claimed that the Negro can survive only through submission. Mr. Washington distinctly asks that black people give up, at least for the present, three things,— First, political power, Second, insistence on civil rights, Third, higher education of Negro youth,—and concentrate all their energies on industrial education, and accumulation of wealth, and the conciliation of the South. This policy has been courageously and insistently advocated for over fifteen years, and has been triumphant for perhaps ten years. As a result of this tender of the palm-branch, what has been the return? In these years there have occurred: 1. The disfranchisement of the Negro. Which statement best compares the two arguments?
Excerpt 1: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 1 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is thinking about killing Banquo. He remembers the witches’ prophecy that Banquo’s sons will be king after Macbeth. In this excerpt, "seed” means "descendants.” [ Macbeth: ] He chid the sisters When first they put the name of king upon me, And bade them speak to him; then, prophet-like, They hail’d him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. If ’t be so, For Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind; For them the gracious Duncan have I murder’d; Put rancours in the vessel of my peace Only for them; and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings! Excerpt 2: Read the excerpt from act 3, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth. Macbeth is speaking with Lady Macbeth. He suggests that something terrible will happen to Banquo and to Banquo’s son, Fleance, tonight. Macbeth: Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale! Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood; Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, [While] night’s black agents to their preys do rouse. Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill: So, prithee, go with me. How does the universal theme "the quest for power” relate to the universal theme "the relationship between violence and human nature” in these excerpts?
Read the excerpt from Roosevelt’s "Four Freedoms.” Since the beginning of our American history, we have been engaged in change—in a perpetual peaceful revolution—a revolution which goes on steadily, quietly adjusting itself to changing conditions—without the concentration camp or the quick-lime in the ditch. The world order which we seek is the cooperation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. What purpose does this paragraph serve in Roosevelt’s argument?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2, of The Tragedy of Macbeth . Ross: From Fife , great king; Where the Norweyan banners flout the sky And fan our people cold. Norway himself, With terrible numbers, Assisted by that most disloyal traitor, The Thane of Cawdor, began a dismal conflict ; Which statement best paraphrases the underlined text?
What are props?
A fact is true and can be proven, while a(n) [Dropdown 1] is someone’s belief or idea.
opinion
Which sentence contains an example of ethos?
Read the sentence. Because the high winds are blowing, the fire may spread rapidly, and we have been ordered to evacuate. What type of sentence is this?
Read the sentence. Will you pick up the dog's toys in the yard, please? What is the mood of this sentence?
What is a central idea of a speech?
What is an adaptation?
Read Mireille's rebuttal to the counterclaim that Bob Dylan's lyrics cannot be considered literature. Student Work Although it is true that Bob Dylan is primarily a songwriter, I consider his lyrics to be just as good as any poetry . Mireille's teacher has asked her to revise the underlined clause to make it logical and objective. Which is the best revision?
What is irony?
Read the definitions. shear = v., to cut sheer = adj., thin soar = v., to fly at a great height sore = adj., feeling pain Which homophones correctly complete the sentence? If you look through the _____ curtains, you can watch the birds _____ over the ocean.
Read the excerpt from Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. Which statement best describes Lincoln’s use of rhetorical appeal?
Read the excerpt from act 1, scene 2 of The Tragedy of Macbeth . Duncan: What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. Malcolm: This is the sergeant Who, like a good and hardy soldier fought ’Gainst my captivity. Hail, brave friend! Say to the king the knowledge of the broil As thou didst leave it. Sergeant: Doubtful it stood; As two spent swimmers, that do cling together And choke their art. The merciless Macdonwald— Worthy to be a rebel, for to that The multiplying villanies of nature Do swarm upon him—from the western isles Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied; And fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore: but all’s too weak; For brave Macbeth,—well he deserves that name,— Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smok’d with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passage Till he fac’d the slave; Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps, And fix’d his head upon our battlements. What is the most likely reason the sergeant appeals to credibility in this excerpt?
Read the passage from A Raisin in the Sun . MAMA ( to WALTER) : Son—( She goes to him, bends down to him, talks to his bent head .) Son . . . Is it gone? Son, I gave you sixty-five hundred dollars. Is it gone? All of it? Beneatha's money too? WALTER ( lifting his head slowly ) : Mama . . . I never . . . went to the bank at all . . . MAMA ( not wanting to believe him ) : You mean . . . your sister's school money . . . you used that too . . . Walter? . . . WALTER: Yessss! All of it . . . It's all gone . . . There is total silence. RUTH stands with her face covered with her hands; BENEATHA leans forlornly against a wall, fingering a piece of red ribbon from the mother's gift. MAMA stops and looks at her son without recognition and then, quite without thinking about it, starts to beat him senselessly in the face. BENEATHA goes to them and stops it . BENEATHA: Mama! MAMA stops and looks at both of her children and rises slowly and wanders vaguely, aimlessly away from them. MAMA: I seen . . . him . . . night after night . . . come in . . . and look at that rug . . . and then look at me . . . the red showing in his eyes . . . the veins moving in his head . . . I seen him grow thin and old before he was forty . . . working and working and working like somebody's old horse . . . killing himself . . . and you—you give it all away in a day— ( She raises her arms to strike him again. ) BENEATHA: Mama— MAMA: Oh, God . . . ( She looks up to Him .) Look down here—and show me the strength. Which statement is the best summary of the theme in this passage?
What is the best evaluation of Ahmad's reasoning?
Read the excerpt from Ronald Reagan's "Tear Down This Wall" speech. Where four decades ago there was rubble, today in West Berlin there is the greatest industrial output of any city in Germany—busy office blocks, fine homes and apartments, proud avenues, and the spreading lawns of park land. Where a city's culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and museums. Where there was want, today there's abundance. Which statement best explains the use of rhetoric in this paragraph?
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