Read the excerpt from Dracula by Bram Stoker. Beyond the gre…
Read the excerpt from Dracula by Bram Stoker. Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves. Right and left of us they towered, with the afternoon sun falling full upon them and bringing out all the glorious colours of this beautiful range, deep blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks, green and brown where grass and rock mingled, and an endless perspective of jagged rock and pointed crags, till these were themselves lost in the distance, where the snowy peaks rose grandly. Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water. One of my companions touched my arm as we swept round the base of a hill and opened up the lofty, snow-covered peak of a mountain, which seemed, as we wound on our serpentine way, to be right before us:— “Look! Isten szek!”—“God’s seat!”—and he crossed himself reverently. Which of the following best describes the tone of this excerpt?
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Read the lines from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare: FRIAR LAWRENCE Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo? FRIAR JOHN I could not send it—here it is again— Returning the letter. Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection. FRIAR LAWRENCE Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, The letter was not nice but full of charge, Of dear import, and the neglecting it May do much danger. Which of the following best explains how the plot device used in this scene impacts meaning in the play?
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