The following text is from Kate Chopin’s 1899 short story “The Awakening.” The protagonist Mrs. Pontellier undergoes a journey of self-discovery and awakening. Robert is another character in the novel who is devoted to Edna.Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky blue-grass country. She was an American woman, with a small infusion of French which seemed to have been lost in dilution. She read a letter from her sister, who was away in the East, and who had engaged herself to be married. Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were.5Mark for ReviewCross out answer choices you think are wrong.ABCWhich choice best states the main purpose of the text?ATo provide background information about Mrs. Pontellier's family and upbringingBTo establish the cultural influences on Mrs. Pontellier's identityCTo explore Robert's curiosity about Mrs. Pontellier's family and personal lifeDTo contrast Mrs. Pontellier's American background with her limited exposure to French culture

Which detail best develops the character of the narrator, Jane Eyre, in the excerpt?excerpt from Jane Eyreby Charlotte BrontëIn the following excerpt, the narrator, Jane Eyre, describes an interaction with her nursemaid, Bessie.Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight. I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth's surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other. Yet, when this cherished volume was now placed in my hand—when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed to find—all was eerie and dreary; the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and fearful imps, Gulliver a most desolate wanderer in most dread and dangerous regions. I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.Bessie had now finished dusting and tidying the room, and having washed her hands, she opened a certain little drawer, full of splendid shreds of silk and satin, and began making a new bonnet for Georgiana's doll. Meantime she sang: her song was—"In the days when we went gipsying,A long time ago."I had often heard the song before, and always with lively delight; for Bessie had a sweet voice,—at least, I thought so. But now, though her voice was still sweet, I found in its melody an indescribable sadness. Sometimes, preoccupied with her work, she sang the refrain very low, very lingeringly.Reset Next

Select the correct text in the passage.Which detail best characterizes the woman in the excerpt as a lonely person?adapted excerpt from Madame Bovaryby Gustave FlaubertShe thought, sometimes, that, after all, this was the happiest time of her life—the honeymoon, as people called it. To taste the full sweetness of it, it would have been necessary doubtless to fly to those lands with thundering names where the days after marriage are full of laziness most pleasant. In post beds behind blue silken curtains to ride slowly up steep road, listening to the song of the postilion re-echoed by the mountains, along with the bells of goats and the muffled sound of a waterfall; at sunset on the shores of gulfs to breathe in the perfume of lemon trees; then in the evening on the villa-terraces above, hand in hand to look at the stars, making plans for the future. It seemed to her that certain places on earth must bring happiness, as a plant peculiar to the soil, and that cannot thrive elsewhere. Why could not she lean over balconies in Swiss chalets, or enshrine her melancholy in a Scotch cottage, with a husband dressed in a black velvet coat with long tails, and thin shoes, a pointed hat and frills? Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.If Charles had but wished it, if he had guessed it, if his look had but once met her thought, it seemed to her that a sudden plenty would have gone out from her heart, as the fruit falls from a tree when shaken by a hand. But as the familiarity of their life became deeper, the greater became the gulf that separated her from him.Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought. He had never had the curiosity, he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theater to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day he could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a nove

Within literary analysis, one can draw parallels between societal structures and individual dynamics. In S.J. Forrester’s novel Talia, the Italian heroine ______ her wealthy husband’s family, admiring them to the point of blind devotion. This phenomenon, often a commentary on the class systems of the era, offers a fertile ground for sociocultural critique.

The following text is adapted from Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden. Mary, the protagonist, has recently moved to a new home and is discovering a hidden garden.Mary was not a child who was used to being taken notice of, but now she was becoming accustomed to her new surroundings, and she found that she quite liked being noticed. She began to take pleasure in the secret garden, spending her time tending to the flowers and plants, and making friends with the animals that lived there. It was a place where she could be herself, free from the expectations of others, and she was growing more and more fond of it each day.

this passage:Olivia is busy planning a grand wedding with her fiancé, Marco. As the wedding date nears, she becomes increasingly anxious about having the outdoor ceremony that Marco wants. Olivia remembers an outdoor family reunion she attended as a child. If she closes her eyes, she can almost see the pack of coyotes running down from a nearby mountain and chasing her family. She can still feel the terror, even after all these years. Olivia takes a deep breath and opens her eyes resolutely, trying to convince herself that such a thing couldn't possibly happen again.Which literary device does the underlined portion of the text most clearly show?A.PacingB.FlashbackC.ConflictD.Foreshadowing