by Katherine Mansfield
Rosemary Fell was not exactly beautiful. No, you couldn't have called her beautiful. Pretty? Well, if you took her to pieces.... But why be so cruel as to take anyone to pieces? She was young, brilliant, extremely modern, exquisitely well dressed, amazingly well read in the newest of the new books, and her parties were the most delicious mixture of the really important people and ... artists —quaint creatures, discoveries of hers, some of them too terrifying for words, but others quite presentable and amusing.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which best describes the influence of the historical setting on the e characterization of Rosemary Fell?
(1 point)
The historical setting does not have a large influence on the characterization.
The historical setting shows she is a leader in her community.
The historical setting shows that she is old-fashioned.
The historical setting tells you that she was not educated.
"A Cup of Tea" by Katherine Mansfield
Question 2
A Cup of Tea
by Katherine Mansfield
Rosemary had been married two years. She had a duck of a boy. No, not Peter - Michael. And her husband absolutely adored her. They were rich, really rich, not just comfortably well off, which is odious and stuffy and sounds like one's grandparents. But if Rosemary wanted to shop she would go to Paris as you and I would go to Bond Street. If she wanted to buy flowers, the car pulled up at that perfect shop in Regent Street, and Rosemary inside the shop just gazed in her dazzled, rather exotic way, and said: "I want those and those and those. Give me four bunches of those. And that jar of roses. Yes, I'll have all the roses in the jar. No, no lilac. I hate lilac. It's got no shape." The attendant bowed and put the lilac out of sight, as though this was only too true; lilac was dreadfully shapeless. "Give me those stumpy little tulips. Those red and white ones." And she was followed to the car by a thin shopgirl staggering under an immense white paper armful that looked like a babv page 17 of 17
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Use the passage to answer the question.
How does the historical context of this passage influence the characterization of Rosemary?
(1 point)
It makes her character seem out of place
• compared to the normal behavior of the time.
It emphasizes the wealth of the character since traveling in the past was more difficult than today.
It shows she is similar to other shoppers of
• her era who purchase goods based on whims.
Question 3
A) Why is knowing the historical setting of a text important to understanding the figurative language used? (1 point)
The figurative language is designed to speak outside of the historical context.
The use of similes and metaphors has been a part of literature throughout time.
The meaning of figurative language could be misunderstood without knowing the historical context.
The use of idioms, a type of figurative language, is specific to certain countries.
Question 4
A) Drag and drop the words into the correct locations. (1 point)
In an author's writing,
; can impact
as they respond to cultural beliefs and
societal norms in their stories.
:: theme
:: stream of consciousness
!: style
:: historical context
Question 5
Kew Gardens
by Virginia Wolff
Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices.
The couple stood still on the edge of the flower bed, and together pressed the end of her parasol deep down into the soft earth. The action and the fact that his hand rested on the top of hers expressed their feelings in a strange way, as these short insignificant words also expressed something, words with short wings for their heavy body of meaning, inadequate to carry them far and thus alighting awkwardly upon the very common objects that surrounded them, and were to their inexperienced touch so massive; but who knows (so they thought as they pressed the parasol into the earth what precipices aren't concealed in them, or what slopes of ice don't shine in the sun on the other side? Who knows? Who has ever seen this before? Even when she wondered what sort of tea they gave you at Kew, he felt that something loomed up behind her words, and stood vast and solid behind them; and the mist very slowly rose and uncovered —O.
Heavens, what were those shapes? —little white tables, and waitresses who looked first at her and then at him; and there was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece, and it was real, all real, he assured himself, fingering the coin in his pocket, real to everyone except to him and to her; even to him it began to seem real; and then - but it was too exciting to stand and think any longer, and he pulled the parasol out of the earth with a jerk and was impatient to find the place where one had tea with other people, like other people.
"Come along, Trissie; it's time we had our tea."
"Wherever does one have one's tea?" she asked with the oddest thrill of excitement in her voice, looking vaguely round and letting herself be drawn on down the grass path, trailing her parasol, turning her head this way and that way, forgetting her tea, wishing to go down there and then down there, remembering orchids and cranes among wild flowers, a Chinese pagoda and a crimson crested bird; but he bore her on.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which detail from the passage supports the idea that social class impacts people's sense of reality?
(1 point)
"... There was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece, and it was real, all real, he assured himself, fingering the coin in his pocket, real to everyone except to him and to her...."
"... but who knows (so they thought as they pressed the parasol into the earth) what precipices aren't concealed in them, or what slopes of ice don't shine in the sun on the other side? Who knows? Who has ever seen this before?"
"The action and the fact that his hand rested on the top of hers expressed their feelings in a strange way, as these short insignificant words also expressed something, words with short wings for their heavy body of
meaning..
"... [Hle pulled the parasol out of the earth with a jerk and was impatient to find the place where one had tea with other people, like other people."
1 answer
Certainly! Here are the answers to your questions based on the provided passages:
Question 1:
Which best describes the influence of the historical setting on the characterization of Rosemary Fell?
Answer: The historical setting does not have a large influence on the characterization.
Question 2:
How does the historical context of this passage influence the characterization of Rosemary?
Answer: It emphasizes the wealth of the character since traveling in the past was more difficult than today.
Question 3:
Why is knowing the historical setting of a text important to understanding the figurative language used?
Answer: The meaning of figurative language could be misunderstood without knowing the historical context.
Question 4:
Drag and drop the words into the correct locations.
In an author's writing, historical context can impact theme as they respond to cultural beliefs and societal norms in their stories.
Question 5:
Which detail from the passage supports the idea that social class impacts people's sense of reality?
Answer: "... There was a bill that he would pay with a real two shilling piece, and it was real, all real, he assured himself, fingering the coin in his pocket, real to everyone except to him and to her...."
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