Read the sentence.Mark Twain is a pseudonym for the writer’s legal name, Samuel L. Clemens.Based on the prefix, pseudo-, what does the word “pseudonym” mean?
Read this excerpt from chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter.Standing on that miserable eminence, she saw again her native village, in Old England, and her paternal home; a decayed house of gray stone, with a poverty-stricken aspect, but retaining a half-obliterated shield of arms over the portal, in token of antique gentility.What is the effect of the underlined words in this excerpt?
Read the poem “Serenade,” by Edgar Allan Poe.So sweet the hour, so calm the time,I feel it more than half a crime,When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,To mar the silence ev'n with lute.At rest on ocean's brilliant dyesAn image of Elysium lies:Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,Form in the deep another seven:Endymion nodding from aboveSees in the sea a second love.Within the valleys dim and brown,And on the spectral mountain's crown,The wearied light is dying down,And earth, and stars, and sea, and skyAre redolent of sleep, as IAm redolent of thee and thineEnthralling love, my Adeline.But list, O list,- so soft and lowThy lover's voice tonight shall flow,That, scarce awake, thy soul shall deemMy words the music of a dream.Thus, while no single sound too rudeUpon thy slumber shall intrude,Our thoughts, our souls- O God above!In every deed shall mingle, loveWhat is the theme of the poem?
Which event described in chapter 1 of The Scarlet Letter takes place before the story begins?
Which statement is the best thesis for a compare-and-contrast essay?
Read the excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 5 of Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott."What in the world are you going to do now, Jo?" asked Meg one snowyafternoon, as her sister came tramping through the hall, in rubberboots, old sack, and hood, with a broom in one hand and a shovel in theother."Going out for exercise," answered Jo with a mischievous twinkle in hereyes."I should think two long walks this morning would have been enough!It's cold and dull out, and I advise you to stay warm and dry by thefire, as I do," said Meg with a shiver."Never take advice! Can't keep still all day, and not being apussycat, I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'mgoing to find some."Why does Alcott most likely begin the chapter with character dialogue?
Read the excerpt from "Annabel Lee," by Edgar Allan Poe.And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea.How does the rhythm of the excerpt support the theme of the poem?
Read the sentence.Having fallen out of the nest, the bird was insensible at first, but then flew off.To decipher the meaning of the word insensible, break the word into
Which statement is the best thesis for a compare-and-contrast essay?
Read the excerpt from “In the Greenest of Our Valleys,” by Edgar Allan Poe.Wanderers in that happy valleyThrough two luminous windows sawSpirits moving musicallyTo a lute's well-tuned lawHow do the ideas in the excerpt compare to Poe’s ideas in "The Poetic Principle"?
An e-mail to your boss asking for a raise in salary would most likely use what type of language?
Read the sentence below.[WOL] the man was only twenty-five years old, he looked twenty years older due to excessive sun exposure. Which transitional word would best complete the sentence?
Read this excerpt from chapter 2 of The Scarlet Letter using comprehension strategies.A blessing on the righteous Colony of the Massachusetts, where iniquity is dragged out into the sunshine!What is the meaning of the word “iniquity”?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity -- an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn -- a pestilent and mystic vapor. Which observation can be made about the narrator?
Read the excerpt from Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher."I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in the unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down -- but with a shudder even more thrilling than before -- upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge. How does this excerpt provide information about the narrator of the story?
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