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Perhaps because bats are nocturnal in habit, a wealth of thoroughly unreliable legend has grown up about them, and men have made of the harmless, even beneficial little beasts a means of expressing their unreasoned fears.  Bats were the standard paraphernalia for witches, the females half of humanity stood in terror that bats would become entangled in their hair.  Phrases crept into the language expressing man’s revulsion or ignorance—“Bat’s in the Belfry,” “Batty,” “Blind as a Bat.”

• creepy
• scary
• informational
• exciting

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Buzzing bee is an example of what sound device?

• alliteration
• repetition
• rhyme
• onomatopoeia

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Wiesel's clawing for air in the barrack established a mood of

• joy
• doom
• anger
• desperation

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The speaker can best be described as a —

• lonely, elderly man longing for visitors
• magician conjuring up evil spirits
• poet seeking inspiration for a new work
• melancholy person trying to forget a great tragedy

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To what does Juliet not want Romeo to swear his love?

• a light in the dark
• the sun
• the moon
• a rose

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how the writer feels about his subject that comes through based upon the types of words chosen.

• tone
• symbol
• theme
• satire

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...an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her were continually smoldering....

• Daisy
• Jordan
• Myrtle
• Catherine

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The plop of the dough made a huge mess on the floor.

• personification

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

• simile

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The way the reader is meant to feel. Often established through setting.

• Tone

• Mood

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What happens that causes Macbeth to say: "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow...our days creep by until the end of time, lighting the way to death like candles leading us to bed. Out, out, brief candle!"

• Malcolm's army invades Macbeth's castle.

• Lady Macbeth kills herself.

• The witches give a final prophecy that shows Macbeth he will die.

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