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Yet I would have thee know that o'er-stubborn spirits are most often humbled; 'tis the stiffest iron, baked to hardness in the fire, that thou shalt oftenest see snapped and shivered; and I have known horses that show temper brought to order by a little curb.
(Fifth century BCE)
The excerpt uses a metaphor in order to express what main idea?
The "stubborn spirit" is the one that is hardest to humble—this means that people who refuse to adopt new ideas are doomed to destruction, while those who are open to learning and adjusting to situations are flexible and at less risk.
(Adapted from the R. C. Jebb translation of Antigone by Sophocles 520-525, Fifth century BCE)
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MEPHISTOPHELES: Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
And if thou lovest me, think no more of it.
I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;(5)
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book peruse it thoroughly: \[Gives a book.\] (10)
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning;
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself…
(1592)
Based on context, what does “cull thee out” (line 4) mean?
When the entire line and subsequent line are read, the answer becomes clearer. “I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans, / And bring them every morning to thy bed” leads us to imagine that the speaker is selecting these courtesans for the addressee. The other choices don’t make sense in the context of the second line.
Passage adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1592)
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1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
(1595)
This passage makes use of the literary devices __________________.
This passage consistently uses rhyme at the end of the line. For instance: dignity/mutiny, scene/unclean, attend, mend, etc. The passage also uses meter--specifically, it is written in iambic pentameter (lines of five metrical feet that each consist of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable).
The passage does not use apostrophe (speaking to an inanimate or not-present addressee), onomatopoeia (words that represent sounds), or irony (a contradiction between literal meaning and intended meaning). It does, however, include some alliteration; see, for instance, the repetition of the "f" sound in line 5.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1595).
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HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
According to the passage, why shall the gentlemen in England “think themselves accursed” (line 9)?
The speaker notes that the gentlemen in England will “hold their manhoods cheap” when people mention the St. Crispin’s Day battle. In other words, they will not be considered as manly as the men the speaker is addressing, the men who will actually take part in the battle. This speech glorifies battle and shames those who do not participate in it.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
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HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
What is the meaning of “be he ne'er so vile” (line 6)?
Reading this line in contemporary English could be misleading, so be careful to consider the context. The speaker promises that the upcoming battle will turn men – all men – gentle. The only construction that fits with this idea of taming all the soldiers is “Even if he is vile.”
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
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TROILUS: Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument;
It is too starved a subject for my sword. (5)
How can line 5 be interpreted?
Line 5, “It is too starved a subject for my sword,” is tricky to parse. However, we can use process of elimination to rule out the too-literal (“I am too hungry to argue”) and the too-liberal (The argument fails to motivate the troops). By deducing that “this argument” (line 4) refers to Helen’s beauty and not the bickering of the men, we are led to the best answer: the speaker believes that the cause of the war is unworthy of his fighting.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (1602).
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Yet I would have thee know that o'er-stubborn spirits are most often humbled; 'tis the stiffest iron, baked to hardness in the fire, that thou shalt oftenest see snapped and shivered; and I have known horses that show temper brought to order by a little curb.
(Fifth century BCE)
The excerpt uses a metaphor in order to express what main idea?
The "stubborn spirit" is the one that is hardest to humble—this means that people who refuse to adopt new ideas are doomed to destruction, while those who are open to learning and adjusting to situations are flexible and at less risk.
(Adapted from the R. C. Jebb translation of Antigone by Sophocles 520-525, Fifth century BCE)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
MEPHISTOPHELES: Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
And if thou lovest me, think no more of it.
I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;(5)
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book peruse it thoroughly: \[Gives a book.\] (10)
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning;
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself…
(1592)
Based on context, what does “cull thee out” (line 4) mean?
When the entire line and subsequent line are read, the answer becomes clearer. “I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans, / And bring them every morning to thy bed” leads us to imagine that the speaker is selecting these courtesans for the addressee. The other choices don’t make sense in the context of the second line.
Passage adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1592)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
(1595)
This passage makes use of the literary devices __________________.
This passage consistently uses rhyme at the end of the line. For instance: dignity/mutiny, scene/unclean, attend, mend, etc. The passage also uses meter--specifically, it is written in iambic pentameter (lines of five metrical feet that each consist of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable).
The passage does not use apostrophe (speaking to an inanimate or not-present addressee), onomatopoeia (words that represent sounds), or irony (a contradiction between literal meaning and intended meaning). It does, however, include some alliteration; see, for instance, the repetition of the "f" sound in line 5.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1595).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
According to the passage, why shall the gentlemen in England “think themselves accursed” (line 9)?
The speaker notes that the gentlemen in England will “hold their manhoods cheap” when people mention the St. Crispin’s Day battle. In other words, they will not be considered as manly as the men the speaker is addressing, the men who will actually take part in the battle. This speech glorifies battle and shames those who do not participate in it.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
What is the meaning of “be he ne'er so vile” (line 6)?
Reading this line in contemporary English could be misleading, so be careful to consider the context. The speaker promises that the upcoming battle will turn men – all men – gentle. The only construction that fits with this idea of taming all the soldiers is “Even if he is vile.”
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
TROILUS: Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument;
It is too starved a subject for my sword. (5)
How can line 5 be interpreted?
Line 5, “It is too starved a subject for my sword,” is tricky to parse. However, we can use process of elimination to rule out the too-literal (“I am too hungry to argue”) and the too-liberal (The argument fails to motivate the troops). By deducing that “this argument” (line 4) refers to Helen’s beauty and not the bickering of the men, we are led to the best answer: the speaker believes that the cause of the war is unworthy of his fighting.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (1602).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Yet I would have thee know that o'er-stubborn spirits are most often humbled; 'tis the stiffest iron, baked to hardness in the fire, that thou shalt oftenest see snapped and shivered; and I have known horses that show temper brought to order by a little curb.
(Fifth century BCE)
The excerpt uses a metaphor in order to express what main idea?
The "stubborn spirit" is the one that is hardest to humble—this means that people who refuse to adopt new ideas are doomed to destruction, while those who are open to learning and adjusting to situations are flexible and at less risk.
(Adapted from the R. C. Jebb translation of Antigone by Sophocles 520-525, Fifth century BCE)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
MEPHISTOPHELES: Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
And if thou lovest me, think no more of it.
I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;(5)
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book peruse it thoroughly: \[Gives a book.\] (10)
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning;
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself…
(1592)
Based on context, what does “cull thee out” (line 4) mean?
When the entire line and subsequent line are read, the answer becomes clearer. “I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans, / And bring them every morning to thy bed” leads us to imagine that the speaker is selecting these courtesans for the addressee. The other choices don’t make sense in the context of the second line.
Passage adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1592)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
1 Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5 From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
9 The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
13 The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
(1595)
This passage makes use of the literary devices __________________.
This passage consistently uses rhyme at the end of the line. For instance: dignity/mutiny, scene/unclean, attend, mend, etc. The passage also uses meter--specifically, it is written in iambic pentameter (lines of five metrical feet that each consist of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable).
The passage does not use apostrophe (speaking to an inanimate or not-present addressee), onomatopoeia (words that represent sounds), or irony (a contradiction between literal meaning and intended meaning). It does, however, include some alliteration; see, for instance, the repetition of the "f" sound in line 5.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1595).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
According to the passage, why shall the gentlemen in England “think themselves accursed” (line 9)?
The speaker notes that the gentlemen in England will “hold their manhoods cheap” when people mention the St. Crispin’s Day battle. In other words, they will not be considered as manly as the men the speaker is addressing, the men who will actually take part in the battle. This speech glorifies battle and shames those who do not participate in it.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
HENRY V: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he today that sheds his blood with me (5)
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks (10)
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
(1600)
What is the meaning of “be he ne'er so vile” (line 6)?
Reading this line in contemporary English could be misleading, so be careful to consider the context. The speaker promises that the upcoming battle will turn men – all men – gentle. The only construction that fits with this idea of taming all the soldiers is “Even if he is vile.”
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Henry V (1600)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
TROILUS: Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds!
Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair,
When with your blood you daily paint her thus.
I cannot fight upon this argument;
It is too starved a subject for my sword. (5)
How can line 5 be interpreted?
Line 5, “It is too starved a subject for my sword,” is tricky to parse. However, we can use process of elimination to rule out the too-literal (“I am too hungry to argue”) and the too-liberal (The argument fails to motivate the troops). By deducing that “this argument” (line 4) refers to Helen’s beauty and not the bickering of the men, we are led to the best answer: the speaker believes that the cause of the war is unworthy of his fighting.
Passage adapted from William Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida (1602).
Compare your answer with the correct one above
Yet I would have thee know that o'er-stubborn spirits are most often humbled; 'tis the stiffest iron, baked to hardness in the fire, that thou shalt oftenest see snapped and shivered; and I have known horses that show temper brought to order by a little curb.
(Fifth century BCE)
The excerpt uses a metaphor in order to express what main idea?
The "stubborn spirit" is the one that is hardest to humble—this means that people who refuse to adopt new ideas are doomed to destruction, while those who are open to learning and adjusting to situations are flexible and at less risk.
(Adapted from the R. C. Jebb translation of Antigone by Sophocles 520-525, Fifth century BCE)
Compare your answer with the correct one above
MEPHISTOPHELES: Tut, Faustus,
Marriage is but a ceremonial toy;
And if thou lovest me, think no more of it.
I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans,
And bring them every morning to thy bed;(5)
She whom thine eye shall like, thy heart shall have,
Be she as chaste as was Penelope,
As wise as Saba, or as beautiful
As was bright Lucifer before his fall.
Here, take this book peruse it thoroughly: \[Gives a book.\] (10)
The iterating of these lines brings gold;
The framing of this circle on the ground
Brings whirlwinds, tempests, thunder and lightning;
Pronounce this thrice devoutly to thyself…
(1592)
Based on context, what does “cull thee out” (line 4) mean?
When the entire line and subsequent line are read, the answer becomes clearer. “I’ll cull thee out the fairest courtesans, / And bring them every morning to thy bed” leads us to imagine that the speaker is selecting these courtesans for the addressee. The other choices don’t make sense in the context of the second line.
Passage adapted from Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus (1592)
Compare your answer with the correct one above