Thursday's Plan

I meant for you to do this on paper, but since I have to be unexpectedly out today, this was the best way to do it. I want you to do two things. I want you to answer the 8 multiple choice questions, then I want you to outline your answer to the essay (OUTLINE-- DO NOT WRITE AN ESSAY-- JUST OUTLINE WHAT YOUR MAIN POINTS WOULD BE). Do these things in a word document and email to me. adavis@clevelandschools.org

Multiple Choice:
Passage is from Letter IV, starting the paragraph before "August 13th, 17--" and ending with "soul-subduing music" just before "August 19th, 17--".

1. The phrase "culled with the choicest art" (just after August 13th, 17--) could best be restated as
A. collected with knowledge
B. picked with pain
C. fraught with color
D. selected with expertise
E. uttered with care

2. The lines from "I was easily led...." to "transmit over the elemental foes of our race" employ all of the following EXCEPT
A. synaesthesia
B. parallelism
C. ellipsis
D. hyperbolic language
E. imagery

3. The stranger's agitation in his words to the narrator ("Unhappy man!" to "dash the cup from your lips") is revealed LEAST by which of the following?
A. allusion
B. diction
C. syntax
D. imagery
E. parallelism

4. In the lines from "Having conquered the violence" to "he led me again", the narrator utilizes diction to create imagery of
A. madness
B. warfare
C. anger
D. resignation
E. depression

5. The stranger's assertion in the lines from "do not lend his aid" to "You have hope" is an example of which fallacy?
A. argumentum ad hominem
B. non sequitur
C. equivocation
D. post hoc ergo propter hoc
E. false analogy

6. The lines from "Ever broken" to "folly ventures" reflect
I. the stranger's descent into madness
II. the ideas of Romanticism
III. the duality of the stranger's mental state
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and II only
E. II and III only

7. The narrator's description of the stranger in the lines from "Such a man has a double existence" to "folly ventures" contain connotations that are predominantly
A. intellectual
B. scientific
C. religious
D. judicial
E. supernatural

8. From the passage as a whole, the reader can infer that
A. the stranger has no desire to be the narrator's friend
B. the narrator's analysis of the stranger is objective
C. the stranger and the narrator have different outlooks on life
D. the narrator is in awe of the stranger's intellect and personality
E. the stranger is more concerned with his own plight than with the narrator's need for a friend

Passage Question:
Read the following passage Start of Chapter 11 to "frightened me into silence again" (4 paragraphs)
There are often similarities drawn between the monster as a baby learning to experience its world and life around it. Consider the techniques used by the author to create that parallel.
You aren't writing the full essay... You are only outlining it.