Eng 12 - U1 - Retake

Choose the word that best describes the italicized word: The rescue workers discovered the dog cowering in the closet.

• barking

• cringing

• dying

• sleeping

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Read these lines from Blake's "The Tyger": "And what shoulder, & what art,/Could twist the sinews of they heart"?

Which of the following is nearest in meaning to sinews as it is used above?

• bones

• essence

• location

• longevity

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Choose the word the best defines the italicized word: The full impact of her rash decision had yet to be seen.

• angry

• hasty

• thoughtful

• uninformed

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CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which excerpt from Burn's "To a Mouse" best conveys empathy?

• "...At me, they earth-born companion,/An' fellow mortal!"

• "An' weary winter comin' fast,/An cozie here, beneath they blast..."

• "The wee-bit housie, too, in ruin!/Its silly wa's the win's are strewin!"

• "Still thou art blessed compare wi' me/The present only toucheth thee..."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

To whom or what does Blake's "The Lamb" direct its praise?

• animals

• the gentleness of nature

• Jesus

• a little lamb

Which of these does Wordsworth criticize in "The World Is Too Much with Us"?

• paganism

• modern life

• the death of reason

• nature's destructive powers

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which line from Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" marks the point at which the dream becomes nightmarish?

• "Where Alph, the sacred river, ran..."

• "...Enfolding sunny spots of greenery."

• "A savage place! as holy and enchanted..."

• "....Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree..."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which excerpt from Lord Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage most clearly describes a state of alienation?

• "But in Man's dwellings he became a thing/Restless and worn..."

• "...On with the giddy circle, chasing Time,/Yet with a nobler aim..."

• "But soon he knew himself the most unfit/Of men to herd with Man..."

• "...He had the passion and the power to roam;/The desert, forest, cavern..."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which excerpt from Shelley's "Ozymandias" refers directly to the title character?

• "...The loan and level sands stretch far away."

• "...Tells that its sculptor well its passions read..."

• "I met a traveler from an antique land/Who said..."

• "...Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert..."

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In his "Ode on a Grecian Urn," Keats attempts to understand and describe...

• the origin of life

• the nature of beauty

• the purpose of death

• the meaning of passion