stood together on the damp ground of the catacombs of the Montresors.
Author: A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Ellison
Work: A. B. Barn Burning C.
The AutobiographyWilliam Faulkner C.
Ralph Waldo
3.The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead
to you is, that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character. If you maintain a dead church, contribute
to a dead Bible-society,
vote with
a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, -- under all these screens I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life.
But
do your work, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce
yourself.
A
man must
consider
what
a
blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.
Author: A. Walt Whitman B. William Faulkner C. Ralph W. Emerson
Work: A. The Road Not Taken Shot
An Arrow C.
Self-reliance
4.The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance
on a large scale. She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy
that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which,
besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and
richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes. She was ladylike, the manner of the characterised
feminine
gentility
of
too, after those
days;
by a certain state and dignity, rather than by
the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace which is now recognised as its indication. appeared more ladylike,
And never had Hester Prynne
of the
in the antique interpretation
term, than as she issued from the prison.
Author: A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. William Faulkner CDickenson
Work: A. Moby Dick B.
5.In disjointed
. Emily
The Scarlet Letter C. Walden
sentences the cook and the correspondent argued
between a life-saving
station and a house
as to the difference
of refuge. The cook had said: \a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up.\
Author: A. Henry James B. William Faulkner C. Stephen Crane
Work: B. The Open Boat C
6.“Get along and doctor your sick,
. Miss Jewett” said Granny Weatherall. ’ll call for you when I want
“Leave a well woman alone. I
you…Where were you forty years ago when I pulled through
milk-leg and double pneumonia You weren’t even born. Don’t let Cornelia lead you on,” she shouted, because Doctor Harry appeared to float up to the ceiling and bills, and I don
out. “I pay my own
”
’t throw my money away on nonsense!
Author: A. Oscar Wilde . W. Longfellow C. Katherine Anne Porter
Work: A. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall B. Moby Dick CJolly Corner
7.It was Gatsby’s father, a
. The
solemn old man, very helpless and
dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. His eyes leaked continuously
with excitement,
and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse gray beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat. He was on the point of collapse, so I took him into the music room and made him sit
down while I sent for something to eat. But he wouldn’t eat, and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Arther Miller CLongfellow
Work: A. Once More To the Lake B. Barn Burning C. The Great Gatsby
. H. W.
8.\Justice said. \Sartoris I
reckon anybody named for Colonel Sartoris in this country can't help but tell
the truth,
can they\The boy said nothing.
Enemy! Enemy! he thought; for a moment he could not even see, could not see that the justice's face was kindly nor discern that his voice was troubled when he spoke to the man named Harris: \hear, and during those subsequent long seconds while there was absolutely no sound in the crowded little room save that
of quiet and intent breathing it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of
the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.
Author: A. F. S. Fitzgerald B. Frost
Work: A. Invisible Man B. Barn Burning CPrince
9.The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the
William Faulkner C. Robert
. The Happy
counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again.
Author: A. Wallace Stevens B. Hemingway
William Faulkner C. Ernest
Work: A. Death of a Salesman Clean, Recitatif
Well-lighted Place C.
10.ABBIE--(suddenly lifts her head and turns on him--wildly
) I
killed him, I tell ye! I smothered him. Go up an' see if ye don't b'lieve me! (
Cabot stares at her a second, then bolts
out the rear door, can be heard bounding up the stairs, and
rushes into the bedroom and over to the cradle. Abbie has sunk backlifelessly
into her former position.
Cabot puts his hand
down on the body in the crib. An expression of fear and horror comes over his face.
)
’neill C. Saul
Author: . C. Williams B. E. G. OBellow
Work: A. Desire Under the Elms B. Catch-22
IV: Complete the following: 20%
Looking for Mr. Green C.
1.To make a __ prairie ___ it takes a __ clover ___ and one
___ bee __,
One ___ clover __ and a _ bee ____.And __ revery ___.
__ Revery ___ alone will do,
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