The forest lands of Gradwitz were of wide extent and well stocked with game; the narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game it harboured or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most jealously guarded of all its owner’s territorial possessions. A famous law suit, in the days of his grandfather, had wrested it from the illegal possession of a neighbouring family of petty landowners; the dispossessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the Courts, and a long series of poaching affrays and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the families for three generations.
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Use the passage to answer the question.
Analyze the author’s use of the words precipitous and embittered. What tone do these words convey?
(1 point)
Responses
a humorous tone
a humorous tone
an enthusiastic tone
an enthusiastic tone
a nostalgic tone
a nostalgic tone
a foreboding tone
a foreboding tone
Question 2
The feud might, perhaps, have died down or been compromised if the personal ill-will of the two men had not stood in the way; as boys they had thirsted for one another’s blood, as men each prayed that misfortune might fall on the other, and this wind-scourged winter night Ulrich had banded together his foresters to watch the dark forest, not in quest of four-footed quarry, but to keep a look-out for the prowling thieves whom he suspected of being afoot from across the land boundary.
A)
Use the passage to answer the question.
If a writer wanted to replace the word dark with one that created a greater sense of dread, what word might the writer use?
(1 point)
Responses
opaque
opaque
ebony
ebony
shadowy
shadowy
dim
dim
Question 3
A)How are similes and metaphors similar?(1 point)
Responses
Both say something is like something else.
Both say something is like something else.
Both say something is something else.
Both say something is something else.
Both compare two unlike things.
Both compare two unlike things.
Both are denotations.
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Question 1
A) Analyze the author’s use of the words precipitous and embittered. What tone do these words convey?
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Question 2
A) If a writer wanted to replace the word dark with one that created a greater sense of dread, what word might the writer use?
Response:
Question 3
A) How are similes and metaphors similar?
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