Exam: 986041RR - WRITING SKILLS PART 2 When you have completed your exam and reviewed your answers‚ click Submit Exam. Answers will not be recorded until you hit Submit Exam. If you need to exit before completing the exam‚ click Cancel Exam. Questions 1 to 20: Select the best answer to each question. Note that a question and its answers may be split across a page break‚ so be sure that you have seen the entire question and all the answers before choosing an answer. 1. Which one of the following
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The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf; My mother ’s countenance Could not unfrown itself. The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt‚ Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt The poem‚ "My Papa ’s Waltz"
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Refined Words from the Past to Present According to the great philosopher named Aristotle‚ virtue enables to a thing’s unique characteristic to perform well and if it doesn’t function well then it’s irrational. Definitions of certain words and their usage have changed from the past to present. Certain words are exploited to abuse or to harass other groups‚ communities‚ ethnicities‚ and people. Author John McWhorter and journalist Martha Irvine wrote “Baltimore’s mayor and the president said ‘thugs’
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When a Shakespearean play is transformed into a modern interpretation‚ it is important that certain aspects of the original‚ such as its concepts‚ themes and values are included in the new storyline. Tim Blake-Nelson’s film ‘O’ is a modern day adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic tragedy ‘Othello’. The playwright written in early 1600 revolves around the central themes of jealousy‚ manipulation and love which are explored through the use of literary techniques. In ‘O’ these themes are still
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“the vocabulary we have does more than communicate our knowledge; it shapes what we can know’. Evaluate this claim with reference to different areas of knowledge.” At first glance this title seems to be ridiculous. Our vocabulary can have complete control over what we can know’. It seems unlikely that there is knowledge that cannot be obtained due to the limits of our vocabulary. However when you look at this in depth it seems to be true. What is vocabulary? Vocabulary are the words we use. Vocabulary
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Allegory - A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings. Anachronism - A word derived from the Greek that literally means ’misplaced in time.’ Anaphora - The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences Ex: In the poem of Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou‚ the phrase "Phenomenal Woman" is a repetition. Antecedent - The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers. It often precedes a pronoun in prose or in poetry
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1. To put abstract ideas into close-up words‚ use _______ descriptions. A. faraway B. impersonal C. general *D. concrete 2. Which one of the following sentences is written in the active voice? A. Accidents are considered by most people as unavoidable. B. It is said that definite steps can be taken to prevent many accidents. *C. Few people think seriously of doing something about accidents. D. Accidents are witnessed every day. 3. Read the word in parentheses; then
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the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. | | Connotation | A suggested‚ implied or evocative meaning. | | Couplet | A pair of lines rhyming consecutively. | Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fall | Denotation | The explicit or literal meaning of a word. | | Enjambement | The running over of a sentence or thought into the next couplet or line without a pause at the end of the line; a run-on line. | | End-stopped lines | The effect achieved when
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Draft: Deception from Home Throughout my entire childhood and part of the way into my adulthood‚ I have been blinded about the true facets of the world. My middle class community shielded me from adversities that one county over faced every day; let alone the struggles one content over. However‚ the point of this piece is not to discuss my deception‚ but the deception every community places on their own residents. This piece aims to explain the duplicity citizens accrue and explain why they exist
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Glossary of Terms for the Analysis of Literature ACROSTIC - Usually verse arranged in such a way as to present names or phrases or sentences when certain letters selected according to an orderly sequence are brought together to form an alphabet‚ a name (often that of the author‚ a patron‚ or a loved one)‚ or some other concealed message. AESTHETICS – Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty‚ especially the arts; the theory of art or of artistic tastes
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