Unit Test (92%)

Read the passage from "An Essay on Man." Self-love and reason to one end aspire,Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire; Which evaluation is best supported by the passage?

? Pope uses repetition to create a rhythm that draws attention to the relationship between self-love and reason.

Read the passage from "An Essay on Man." And to their proper operation stillAscribe all Good, to their improper, Ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul;Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. In the passage, Pope uses

? antithesis in the line "Reason's comparing balance rules the whole."

To analyze whether the structure of "An Essay on Man" includes ____, the reader should check if there are ten syllables per line, with stress on every other syllable.

? iambic pentameter

Read the body paragraph from an essay on sound effects in film. Stretch a piece of waxed paper until it's taut. Next, place it in front of the microphone. Then, pour uncooked rice onto the paper. This results in a sizzling sound that can be used for cooking on a hot stove or frying bacon. To provide a smooth transition at the beginning of the paragraph, what is the most effective sentence to add?

For example, it's easy to create a sizzling sound.

Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels. There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation. Which is an objective summary of the passage?

Gulliver encounters an architect who builds houses from the top down.

Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor's gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers." Which phrase from the passage best helps the reader to identify the passage as a satire?

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers

Read an excerpt from an article on filmmaking. Filmmaking can be broken down into three phases. The preproduction phase includes things such as securing financing for the film, writing the script, scouting locations, and hiring cast and crew. In the production phase the actual recording of the video and audio takes place. This phase also includes things such as setting up cameras, electricity, lights, and sound. Makeup, costume, and set designers are on hand during this phase as well. Finally, during the postproduction phase, the film is edited, sound and visual effects are inserted, and a music score is added. Which research paper would this article best support?

"Tracking the Intricacies of the Modern Filmmaking Process"

Which statements about antithesis in poetry are accurate? Check all that apply. - Antithesis is repeated rhythms. - Antithesis is used to compare similarities. - Antithesis is used to emphasize contrast. - Antithesis is the combination of two opposing ideas. - Antithesis is usually dependent upon parallelism.

- Antithesis is used to emphasize contrast. - Antithesis is the combination of two opposing ideas. - Antithesis is usually dependent upon parallelism.

Which sentences begin with a transition? Check all that apply. - In conclusion, it is important to allow ample time for editing. - Hey, the new science fiction film will open worldwide. - My sisters, Anja and Giovanna, prefer outside activities. - Consequently, all projects must contain detailed citations. - For instance, the average airspeed of birds is unexpected.

- In conclusion, it is important to allow ample time for editing. - Consequently, all projects must contain detailed citations. - For instance, the average airspeed of birds is unexpected.

Which characteristics of satire are evident in "A Modest Proposal"? Select three answer options. - criticism of society - verbal irony - multiple points of view - humor and ridicule - serious language

- criticism of society - verbal irony - humor and ridicule

Which lines are the best example of antithesis?

Created half to rise, half to fall;Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;

Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their proper places. And, now that more equitable laws are forming your citizens, marriage may become more sacred: your young men may choose wives from motives of affection, and your maidens allow love to root out vanity. What is the central idea of the excerpt?

In equal roles, men and women will establish more meaningful marriages.

Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients. This Love is introduced without any parent at all; only, that some say he was an egg of Night. And himself out of Chaos begot all things, the gods included. The attributes which are assigned to him are in number four: he is always an infant; he is blind; he is naked; he is an archer. There was also another Love, the youngest of all the gods, son of Venus, to whom the attributes of the elder are transferred, and whom in a way they suit. Bacon's purpose is to explain what

Love is.

Read the two passages from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients. Passage 1: The fable relates to the cradle and infancy of nature, and pierces deep. This Love I understand to be the appetite or instinct of primal matter; or to speak more plainly, the natural motion of the atom; which is indeed the original and unique force that constitutes and fashions all things out of matter. Passage 2: Let us now consider his attributes. He is described with great elegance as a little child, and a child for ever; for things compounded are larger and are affected by age; whereas the primary seeds of things, or atoms, are minute and remain in perpetual infancy. How do the two passages work together to develop Bacon's argument?

Passage 1 explains his central idea, while passage 2 supports it.

Read the sentence from a paper on Gulliver's Travels. Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels so he could humorously criticize the government.

Purpose

Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments. The longer that men continue in the practice of evil and wickedness, they grow the more abandoned; for nothing in history can equal the barbarity and cruelty of the tortures and murders committed under various pretences in modern slavery, except the annals of the Inquisition and the bloody edicts of Popish massacres. What belief does Cugoano explicitly express in this excerpt?

Slavery is an awful and vicious practice.

An author's ____ is his or her reason for writing a text.

purpose

Read the excerpt from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Consider, I address you as a legislator, whether, when men contend for their freedom, and to be allowed to judge for themselves respecting their own happiness, it be not inconsistent and unjust to subjugate women, even though you firmly believe that you are acting in the manner best calculated to promote their happiness? Who made man the exclusive judge, if woman partake with him of the gift of reason? How does this idea enhance Wollstonecraft's argument?

by pointing out the legal injustice in the exclusion of women

Read the paragraph. Congratulations on your eighteenth birthday and your graduation! Now what? Well, you can vote in the next election. This will allow your opinions to be heard and reflected in our country's government. You can look around your community and observe roads, parks, and public places with new eyes. You might notice improvements that could be proposed. Or you might take a minute to pick up litter that someone else has left behind. As an adult, as a tax-paying citizen, embrace opportunities to contribute to the greater good. What is the topic of the paragraph?

civic responsibility

Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients. Let us now consider his [Cupid's] attributes. He is described with great elegance as a little child, and a child for ever; for things compounded are larger and are affected by age; whereas the primary seeds of things, or atoms, are minute and remain in perpetual infancy. Most truly also is he represented as naked: for all compounds (to one that considers them rightly) are masked and clothed; and there is nothing properly naked, except the primary particles of things. Bacon lists Cupid's attributes in order to

compare them to the features of the atom.

A heroic couplet

expresses a complete poetic thought.

To determine the central idea of An Essay on Man, what should the reader do first?

identify the topic

Read the passage from Of the Wisdom of the Ancients. Now the philosophy of the Greeks, which in investigating the material principles of things is careful and acute, in inquiring the principles of motion, wherein lies all vigour of operation, is negligent and languid; and on the point now in question seems to be altogether blind and babbling; for that opinion of the Peripatetics which refers the original impulse of matter to privation, is little more than words—a name for the thing rather than a description of it. Which phrase from the passage best states its central idea?

in inquiring the principles of motion, wherein lies all vigour of operation, is negligent and languid

Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels. The method is this: in an acre of ground you bury, at six inches distance and eight deep, a quantity of acorns, dates, chestnuts, and other mast or vegetables, whereof these animals are fondest; then you drive six hundred or more of them into the field, where, in a few days, they will root up the whole ground in search of their food, and make it fit for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop. However it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement. Which excerpt from the passage is the best example of understatement?

it is not doubted, that this invention may be capable of great improvement

Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal." Thus the squire will learn to be a good landlord, and grow popular among his tenants, the mother will have eight shillings neat profit, and be fit for work till she produces another child. On which false premise does this excerpt rely?

that a woman would be willing to breed children to sell