GEORGE ELLIOT
Practice Test 2 #12-201B
Questions # 12
#12 – E) a professional writer
POE; no reason to believe any of the others, so this is acceptable
Question #17
#17 – B) suffered from her independence and knowledge
Knowledge = a double burden
Burden lead to Eliot’s death
Question #18
#18 – D) relative clauses
POERelative clauses –give
essential information about someone or something – information that we need in order to understand what or who is being referred.; A defining relative clause usually comes immediately after the noun it describes.We usually use a relative pronoun (e.g. who, that, which, whose and whom) to introduce a defining relative clause
In the examples, the relative clause is in bold, and the person or thing being referred to is underlined.):
They’re the people who want to buy our house.
Here are some cells which have been affected.
They should give the money to somebody who they think needs the treatment most.
Terms to Know
Apposition - a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent (e.g., my friend Sue ; the first US president, George Washington.
Hyperbole – overstatement or exaggeration
Personification – figurative device in which inanimate objects or concepts are given human qualities
Parallelism - parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. clauses that have the same grammatical structure.
Terms to Know
Cloistered – secluded from the world; sheltered
Mitigate - to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.
Despondent - feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom:
Laurel - a small European evergreen tree
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