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ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 2. What distinction does the passage make between Hamlet and Julius Caesar and the other plays written in what the passage calls Shakespeare's "tragic period"?
Archetypes Videos 5 videos
ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 2. What distinction does the passage make between Hamlet and Julius Caesar and the other play...
ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 7. Which of the following characters is specifically mentioned as a personification of "horror and...
ACT Reading: Humanities Passage Drill 1, Problem 10. Which of the following is the best explanation of the term "tragedy of thought" in line 58?
Archetypes and Motifs in Drama Videos 5 videos
AP English Literature and Composition 1.7 Passage Drill 4. The ongoing emphasis on vegetation and nature in the poem classifies it as which of...
ACT Reading Prose Fiction Drill 1, Problem 4. How does the narrator feel about the prediction made at his birth that he would have the ability...
Prose Fiction Drill 1.10. Which of the following best describes the narrator's attitude toward his father?
Fiction Videos 1 videos
AP® English Literature and Composition Passage Drill 3, Problem 1. Which of the following can be said of the description in lines 5 through 10?
Figurative Language in Historical/Cultural Setting Videos 4 videos
CAHSEE 1.1 English Language Arts Passage Drill. Which line is an example of a metaphor?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.4 Passage Drill 5. According to lines 5 and 6, "much pleasure" derives from what?
Poetic Structure, Prosody, Graphic Elementss Videos 5 videos
ACT Reading 1.5 Prose Fiction. Which of the following is the best definition for the word "posthumous" in line 67?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.5 Passage Drill 5. What is the principle effect of the anaphora in lines 10-12?
AP English Literature and Composition 1.10 Passage Drill 2. All of the following literary devices are used in this passage except what?
Symbolism, Allegory, Allusions Videos 5 videos
Did you know that you, as a writer, get your own toolbox? That's right! It doesn’t even matter how badly you fouled up that sliding bookshelf you...
PSAT 2.2 Reading Diagnostic. What is the main rhetorical effect of this phrase in the second paragraph?