WILL MEDAL AND FAN
Honors English 10 A

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WILL MEDAL AND FAN
Honors English 10 A

anonymous · Answer

11.   In the poem “Telephone Conversation,” which of the following best describes the character’s feeling toward the potential landlady?  (1 point)
	resignation
	pity
	anger
	confusion
12.   In "Black Girl," when Madame Pouchet hired Diouana, what was her motive?  (1 point)
	to help a citizen of Dakar
	to have a servant travel with her to France
	to have a cook
	to have a secretary

joclyn16 · Answer

11. pity 
12. to have a servant travel with her to France

anonymous · Answer

16.   Read the following passage from "First Confession" in which the main character has just entered the confessional.
It must have been then that I noticed the shelf at about one height with my head. It was really a place for grown-up people to rest their elbows, but in my distracted state I thought it was probably the place you were supposed to kneel. Of course, it was on the high side and not very deep, but I was always good at climbing and managed to get up all right. Staying up was the trouble...

"What are you doing up there?" he shouted in an angry voice, and the strain the politeness was putting on my hold of the molding, and the shock of being addressed in such an uncivil tone, were too much for me. I lost my grip, tumbled, hit the door an unmerciful allop before I found myself flat on my back in the middle of the aisle. The people who had been waiting stood with their mouths open. The priest opened the door of the middle box and came out, pushing his biretta back from his forehead; he looked something terrible.

Which of the following stylistic elements is used by the writer to create humor in these lines?  (1 point)
	hyperbole
	incongruity
	irony
	sarcasm

anonymous · Answer

When it comes to literary elements, I'm not that good.

anonymous · Answer

What does incongruity mean? It might be that.

anonymous · Answer

@Joclyn16