A Sample Essay Question with 2 Sample Answers & Scoring Comments (For Students of 2011) In the following speech from Shakespeare’s play Henry VIII‚ Cardinal Wolsey considers his sudden downfall from his position as advisor to the king. Spokesmen for the king have just left Wolsey alone on stage. Read the speech carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Shakespeare uses elements such as allusion‚ figurative language‚ and tone to convey Wolsey’s complex response to his
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Transcript Analysis: Introduction: The transcript submitted is based on a recording taken while waiting for the bus on Barkers Road. It was an afternoon and the conversation was between Ruby‚ Victoria‚ Brigitte‚ Callan and myself. The conversation is reasonably straightforward in meaning but often difficult to understand. Situational Context: As stated‚ the recording took place at the Barkers Road bus bay. This is a reasonably public place‚ although it mainly consists of school students. The
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M. A. Vassalli Junior Lyceum Half-Yearly Examination 2006/2007 Form 2 English Language Time: 2 hours Name: __________________________________ Class: __________ Mark: A. Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the Present Simple or the Present Continuous: Example: Steve always rides (to ride) his bike in the afternoon. 1. Andy sometimes ______________ (to read) a comic. 2. I ________________ (to phone) my friend at the moment. 3. Listen! Sandy _________________ (to sing) in the bathroom
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Pomp: a superb display of something. The fireworks were very pomp. Slipshod: something or someone that is careless and/or dirty. The woman was dressed slipshod‚ which is very unusual. Circumlocutions: a way of speaking‚ in a roundabout way. She wouldn’t give me a direct answer she just kept speaking in a circumlocution. 1. Which of the following best describes the rhetorical function of the second sentence in the passage? (a) It makes an appeal to authority. (b) It restates the thesis
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Wyatt‚ "They Flee From Me" Set of Multiple-choice Questions Analyzing a Poem Sir Thomas Wyatt’s sixteenth-century lyric "They flee from me" is an enigmatic poem that pleases at least partly because it provides no final certainty about the situation it describes. Yet the poem‚ while in some respects indefinite and puzzling‚ is nevertheless quite specific in its presentation of a situation‚ particularly
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English-literacy 2010 School Certificate Test General Instructions ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Total marks – 90 Reading time: 10 minutes Working time: 2 hours Write using black or blue pen Attempt ALL questions Do NOT write in pencil Refer to the Stimulus Booklet provided and use it where required throughout the test Write your Centre Number and Student Number at the top of pages 13‚ 15 and 17 Section 1 — Reading/Viewing Pages 2–14 60 marks Allow about 1 hour and 20 minutes for this section Questions
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Mending Wall ~by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn’t love a wall‚ That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it‚ And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone‚ But they would have the rabbit out of hiding‚ To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean‚ No one has seen them made or heard them made‚ But at spring mending-time
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“Life on Mars” is a very sentimental and intimate book of poems about how an author deals a lost in her life. Dan Chiasson from The New Yorker states‚ “Smiths own poetic focus‚ though polished‚ like the lenses of the Hubble‚ ‘to an impossible strength‚’ is often directed to the here and now: the book is by turns intimate‚ even confessional‚ regarding private life in light of its potential extermination‚ and resoundingly political‚ warning of a future that isn’t what it used to be.” The book of poems
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An Analysis of Two Key Passages in Antigone During the Nazi occupation of France‚ Jean Anouilh produced an adaptation of Sophocles’ tragedy‚ Antigone‚ as a representation of the struggle between those collaborating with the occupants and those resisting them. While it is possible to read Anouilh’s Antigone as a ‘texte de la Resistance’‚ it can also be interpreted as an apologia for the Nazis’ severe‚ authoritarian behavior. The two key passages selected are crucial to the development of the play
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NATIONAL SENIOR CERTIFICATE GRADE 12 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE P2 NOVEMBER 2013 MARKS: 80 TIME: 2½ hours This question paper consists of 23 pages. Copyright reserved Please turn over English Home Language/P2 2 NSC DBE/November 2013 INSTRUCTIONS AND INFORMATION 1. Read this page carefully before you begin to answer the questions. 2. Do not attempt to read the entire question paper. Consult the table of contents on page 4 and mark the numbers of the questions
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