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Read the following passage and select the best lettered response. “I thought, as I wiped my eyes on the corner of my apron:Penelope did this too.And more than once: you can't keep weaving all dayAnd undoing it all through the night;Your arms get tired, and the back of your neck gets tight;” (Millay) Which of the following statements are true about the excerpt from the poem: • Parallel Structure is used to denote levels of equal importance between Penelope and the speaker. • Parallel Structure is used to generate a lyrical pattern. • Allusion is use to elevate the speaker’s experiences, by likening them to Penelope’s. • Allusion is used to appeal to the reader by drawing upon a widely recognized work. • Both C & D.
Read the following passage and select the best lettered response. “Think of a catch that fisherman haul in to a half-moon bay In a fine-meshed net from the whitecaps of the sea: How all are poured out on the sand, in throes for the salt sea, Twitching their cold lives away in Helios’ fiery air: So lay the suitors heaped on one another. 138 In the passage above – • Metaphor is used to enhance imagery. • Assonance is used to generate a lyrical pattern of sounds. • Allusion is used to elevate the scene by drawing upon the gods. • All of the above.
Objective: SWBAT Assess Odysseus’s heroism by examining his displays of ethos, logos, and pathos. “Ruses served my turn to draw the time out – first a close-grained web 1160 I had the happy thought to set up weaving on my big loom in hall. I said that day: ‘Young men – my suitors, now my lord is dead, Let me finish my weaving before I marry, Or else my thread will have been spun in vain. 1165 It is a should I weave for Lord Laertes when cold Death comes to lay him on his bier. In the passage: A. Imagery and personification are used to enhance portrayals of Penelope’s grief. B. Alliteration and imagery are used to illustrate the passing of time. C. Consonance and alliteration are used to create a rhythmic pattern. D. Personification and onomatopoeia are used to convey a melancholy mood.
Read the sample passages and select the best support sentence to follow the passage below in a written response – “‘O hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands… grant that Odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home… Should destiny intend that he shall see his roof again among his family in his fatherland, far be that day, and dark the years between. Let him loose all companions, and return under strange sail to bitter days at home’” (Homer 467 – 476) A. An epithet is used to appeal to the audiences’ sense of ethos by making Odysseus appear as god-like. B. An epithet is used to appeal to the audiences' sense of ethos, as the Cyclops calls out to his father, Poseidon. C. An epithet is used to appeal to the audiences’ sense of logos to show what will occur next in the story. D. An epithet is used to appeal to the audiences’ sense of logos by showing Odysseus’s supreme power of the Cyclops and the gods.
Read the following passage and select the best lettered response. “Athena lent him beauty, head to foot. She made him taller, and massive, too, with crisping hair 1385 in curls like petals of wild hyacinth but all red-golden. Think of gold infused on silver by a craftsman, whose fine art Hephaestus taught him, or Athena – one whose work moves to delight; just so she lavished beauty over Odysseus’s head and shoulders” (Homer 651) All of the following statements about the excerpt are true except: • Allusion is used to elevate the tone. • Hyperbole is used to elevate the tone. • Metaphor is used to enhance imagery. • Simile is used to enhance imagery.
Read the following passage and select the best lettered response. “Now from his breast into his eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, 1455 his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms, longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer Spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon’s blow’s gale winds and tons of sea. Few men keep alive thorough a big surf 1460 to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches” (Homer 653). The solemn tone of the passage is established as: • Odysseus is portrayed as suffering in line 1455. • Odysseus is portrayed as weak in line 1455. • Odysseus is portrayed as vulnerable in line1459. • Odysseus is portrayed as strong, having survived hardship in line 1460.
