Beowulf Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. Comprehension The questions below refer to the selections “from Beowulf‚ Part One‚” “from Grendel‚” “Life in 999: A Grim Struggle‚” and “from Beowulf‚ Part Two.” ____ 1. Beowulf slays Grendel in order to — |a. |save Hrothgar and the Danes from the monster | |b. |prevent Grendel from invading the
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as opposed to at home. Rising industries and factories led people to move from farms to cities. This led to other overcrowding and disease. However‚ agriculture got better including machines and cultivators. For example‚ Cyrus McCormick created the reaper which allowed for quick and cheap harvesting of grain. John Deere then created the first steel plow in 1837 helping speed farming across the Midwest. Due to increasing size of the United States‚ communication networks became very important. In 1844
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Basically‚ this poem is about love‚ but here shakespeare has discussed the love which is in his mind. you may disagree with him if you like. The first stanza in this poem is a quatrain and its rhyme scheme is abab. Shakespeare uses alliteration‚ assonance‚ consonance‚ and repetition to develop this stanza‚ which‚ as a whole‚ states that love does not change. The first line contains an example of alliteration in the words “me‚” “marriage‚” and “minds.” In this line‚ he is referring to love as
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the imagery and tone. The theme of this poem‚ which is the lack of hope‚ shows Byron’s pessimistic representation of humanity. Bestial images‚ fearful images‚ and lifeless images of the world all further show Byron’s view on humanity. Finally‚ his grim tone on the subject displays what he thinks about humanity’s life. With these literary devices‚ Byron’s negative representation of humanity is clear. A possible theme for Lord Byron’s “Darkness” is that there is a lack of hope. This poem depicts a
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was published‚ titled “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”. Many of their tales were deemed too gruesome and grim for children‚ but in recent times‚ modern storytellers have adapted their tales to something perceived as more worthy and suitable for children. While there are some advantageous aspects to these modern takes on the Grimm Brothers’ Tales‚ they (like the initial tales) can be regarded as gruesome and grim through their portrayal of women‚ deception in giving false hope and their setting of unrealistic
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Lexico-semantic groups of words which help in creating the mood of the text: * Dark (blackened‚ shady‚ dirty‚ twilight) * Grey (smoke-dried‚ gaunt‚ invisible‚ dismal) * Death (murders‚ funeral‚ dead‚ buried) * Dreadful (awful‚ monstrous‚ ghastly‚ grim) To create the gloomy atmosphere of the outside of the house‚ Dickens uses such colour adjectives as ‘blackened’‚ ‘white’ (mice) and ‘grey’‚ and epithets ‘tall’‚ ‘dark’‚ ‘dreadfully’‚ ‘shady’. The epithet ‘dark’ is repeated several times and accentuates
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about the war: “The war seemed as far away as the football games of some one else’s college. But I knew from the papers that they were still fighting in the mountains because the snow would not come”. (291). However‚ after a difficult escape from the grim masculine world at the front‚ he is not granted a paradise with Catherine Barkley‚ which is foreshadowed by the narrator. By depicting a change in nature‚ Hemingway consciously stresses the lovers’ harmony that is about to change‚ a harmony that is
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establish a distressful tone. In addition‚ he included‚ “I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old‚ you know?” Here‚ he makes a connection to the sensitivity of a five-year-old and pain by using a melancholy tone. Alexie’s overall grim tone effectively sets the mood of the passage‚ as it is meant to be perceived as depressive and heartbreaking. In addition to tone‚ Alexie’s syntax helps set the mood of the excerpt. In fact‚
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gloomy and isolated. Watson‚ the narrator of the novel‚ says‚ “The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one’s soul” (73). This quote shows that as Watson spends more time at Baskerville Hall‚ he starts to feel more of the grim and mysterious environment; it almost becomes a part of him. The initial reason Watson goes to Baskerville Hall is to solve a crime. One of the main events in the story is figuring out who is responsible for the death of Sir Charles. In the beginning
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coward. “No kind of lucky chance I see…he’ll freeze into mud to the marrow”: another note of grim realism. The second ghost suggests that the soldier will end up dying of hypothermia— possibly stuck in one of the pond-sized craters in no-man’s-land‚ unable to scramble up the loose earth out of the freezing water. “Picardie”: a French town‚ in which the most severe fighting took place during the Somme – a grim fate. “Curses the third spat venomously”: the last of the spectres is the most malevolent
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