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ejects her <strong>com</strong>munity and lives cloisteredwith the corpse of her beloved."Enoch and the Gorilla" Examples: Theboy kills the gOrilla man to take his costumeand be<strong>com</strong>e a popular entertainer.C. Essay QuestionsAnswers will vary. Reasonable responsesinclude the following:1. In "Circus at Dawn," Wolfe uses sensorydetails that appeal to smell, such as "thesmell of Cinders, acrid smoke. of musty.rusty freight cars, the clean pine-board ofcrated produce." He also uses sensorydetails that appeal to hearing, such as"sudden snarling ... trumpeting ...stamp." His sight details include "Greatflares of gaseous circus 11ght" and "flourishhis gray wrinkled snout." In "Cat­Like," Holman uses sensory details thatappeal to sight, such as "tail and legssubtly grey-striped and its body palesand" or "cool bright eyes with aspectsmysterious lazing and lurking deepbehind them." He also uses details thatappeal to hearing "struggle of consonants"or touch "hooked a claw in the flesh."2. All three are told in a dramatic. reverent,and somewhat bitter mood. Their themesare loss. loyalty. and pride. The speakerin "Childhood" evokes a mood of smolderinganger of the exhausted miners andsharecroppers where she lived. Thespeaker in "The Rain Guitar" shares hissongs with a stranger from the <strong>com</strong>monexperience of battle, as if to celebrate theirsuffering. The speaker in "Eagle Rock"bitterly mocks the tourists who visit theCherokee Trail of Tears monument. Allthree poems share the themes of loss andloyalty. All three evoke a mood of angrypride.3. The point of view in the excerpt from RiverofEarth is that of the main character as achild. He or she is part of the story beingtold. The point ofview in "Eagle Rock" isthat of an omniscient narrator-someonewho knows everything but is not identifiedas a character in the piece. The point ofview of the narrator in "Sled Burial.Dream Ceremony" is that of the maincharacter in the poem, the body of thesoutherner. The reader doesn't realizeuntil the end of the poem that it describesa dream about death.<strong>Test</strong> AnswersHamletA. Thinking About the Play1. b 2.d 3. b 4.a 5. bB. Identifying the Character1. Claudius 2. Horatio 3. Gertrude4. Hamlet 5. LaertesC. Understanding Literary Elementsand Techniques1. irony2. allusion3. soliloquy4. irony5. imagery<strong>Test</strong> AnswersThe TempestA. Thinking About the Play1. d 2. a 3. b 4. b 5.c 6.d7. c B.d 9.a 10. bB. Identifying Plot Conflict and ResolutionConflictCaliban is angry at Prospera for takingover the island and enslaving him. Heurges Stephana to kill Prospera while hesleeps. destroy his books of magic, andbe<strong>com</strong>e the ruler of the island. Hepromises to be Stephano's slave and worshiphim as a god.ResolutionAt the end of the play, Caliban repentsand asks for Prospera's forgiveness. Herealizes he was a fool to take Stephano fora god.ConOictProspero caused the tempest in order toshipwreck Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastianon his island and set his plan in motion© Prentice-Hall, Inc. 119

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