Emily Brontë, author of Wuthering Heights, was sister to Charlotte and Anne Brontë, both also writers. Charlotte (1816-1855) was the first to achieve public recognition, publishing under the pen name “Currer Bell” a novel called
Member of the Bloomsbury Group, this author and publisher is today regarded as one of the most important modernist literary figures of the last century.
Read these very famous passages below.
I. Beware, my lord, of jealousy/ It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock/ The meat it feeds on. II. This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper. III. Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo. Attributing each passage to its respective author and the work from where they were taken, choose the right alternative.Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954, American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), published in 1940 a novel with the Spanish Civil War as its background. This work was called
Since Shakespeare and Dickens are “literary”, Anne Frank’s Diary of a Young Girl can be classified as
I. factual, because it recounts actual facts of her life. II. instructive, because it was written to alert the world against the dangers of Nazism. III. a mass media text, because it has become widely read and influential. There are, for instance, movies based on her diary. The correct assertion(s) is(are)
Read the lines below taken from Text B.
I pine a lot, I find the lot Falls through without you The underlined words can be replaced by
Read the sentence below and choose one alternative to replace the underlined words with a synonymous.
A great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by.
Read the sentence below and choose one alternative to replace the three underlined words with their respective synonyms.
He was once seen riding on an elephant, in company with a Baboon; but I think it must have been a Baboo – or a Begum.Choose one alternative to fill in the blank spaces of the paragraph below.
In the contemporary word, “knowledge” ______ a business package stylishly ______, ______ and ______, ______ within the enduring charm ______ by the 26 alphabets of the English language which ______ itself in a strange position. From a colonial construct, English ______ Janus-faced: a global facilitator on one side and a global watchdog on the other.Choose one alternative to fill in the blank spaces of the sentence below.
______ the UK ______ the USA has ______ had a legally sanctioned official or national language.