Part 4: Writing to Evaluate Mortimer's Style QUIZ

Read the literary analysis paragraph. Shakespeare's writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape. His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors. In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like "ruthless," "vast," and "gloomy" to describe forests. Although he is known as the "playwright's playwright," Shakespeare could have been a travel guide. Which sentence from the paragraph contains the best use of domain-specific vocabulary? Shakespeare's writing style reveals information about attitudes toward the landscape. His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors. In Titus Andronicus, he uses words like "ruthless," "vast," and "gloomy" to describe forests. Although he is known as the "playwright's playwright," Shakespeare could have been a travel guide.

His precise word choice provides detailed descriptions of the outdoors.

Read the sentence. Lots of writers have written good stuff other than books, like stuff for movies. Which is the best way to revise the sentence to include more precise wording? Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting. Modern writers often write books and other things, such as screenplays. Many writers choose to write other things instead of books, such as movies. Many novelists do good writing for books as well as for stuff like movies.

Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting.

Read the literary analysis of The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. In The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England, Mortimer helps readers relate to how deadly the plague was. He uses specific, clear examples to make his points, such as in the following example. Which is the best evidence to add to the passage to support the writer's point? Elizabethans studied Galen, who lived in the second century CE. Sixteenth-century medical assumptions were wrong. After the 1556 outbreak, people did not know whether the plague would return. An estimated 250,000 people died during the epidemic.

An estimated 250,000 people died during the epidemic

Read the sentence. The playwright created a tragedy with nice characterizations. Which underlined word would be the best to replace in order to create more precise wording? playwright tragedy nice characterizations

nice