Reading Comprehension Worksheet WK 25

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LA 10 Reading Comprehension
Directions: Read pages 883 - 919
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Modern and Contemporary Literature 1990 -
Wk 25
Use complete sentences with proper grammar to answer the following items.
1. Why did Lise feel at the beginning of the story that never having secrets from her husband allows her to move and
breather in “perfect freedom?”
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2. Identify the dynamic character in the story. How would you describe the way that character has changed by the end
of the story? Explain.
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3. Explain why Lise offers her wedding ring to the murderer?
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4. What change in Lise’s life does the loss of the ring represent?
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5. Explain why it is ironic that Sigismund is touched that his wife “should take the loss of his ring so to heart”?
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6. What do you think Lise and Sigismund’s married life became?
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7. What are the three most important events in the life of Anna Akhmatova?
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8. Explain the two implied metaphors in lines 2 and 3 of “Everything Is Plundered.”
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9. Describe the mood of “Everything Is Plundered.”
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10. What is meant by the term “the miraculous”… line 9?
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11. What is the question posed in line 4? How does it relate to the rest of the poem?
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12. What is the theme of the poem?
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13. Describe the imagery in the poem.
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14. What is the mood of the poem? Use specific words as your evidence.
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15. Give specific example from the poem for … assonance, alliteration, rhyme and repetition?
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16. Describe the one most interesting aspect of the life of Federico Garcia Lorca.
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17. In “The Guitar,” what word is used to identify the point where this world is repeated in the poem? Why is it?
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18. What sounds in nature is the sound of the guitar compared to?
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19. What three things does the guitar mourn?
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20. What part of the body is the guitar referred to in the last line?
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21. What do you think the “five swords” are?
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22. Describe the overriding emotion associated with the guitar and its sound.
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23. What images in the poem suggest this emotion?
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24. Explain what is meant by the phrase, “impossible to stop.”
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25. Describe three important aspects in the life of Albert Camus.
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26. What is Sisyphus condemned to do by the gods?
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27. What happens when Sisyphus is allowed to return to earth after his death?
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28. What kind of hero does Camus claim Sisyphus is?
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29. How does Sisyphus behave toward the gods?
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30. What part of Sisyphus’s labor most interests Camus?
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31. How does Sisyphus overcome the absurdity, or meaninglessness, of his tasks?
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32. What allusions does Camus include?
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Draw and illustration for one of the Readings. Give it a title: _____________________________________
Name ________________________ Class ______
LA 10 Reading Comprehension
Date _________
Modern and Contemporary Literature 1990 -
Score ____________
Wk 25
Writing: According to Camus, “the workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is
no less absurd” than Sisyphus’s meaningless and repetitive labor. Imagine yourself as one of the workers Camus
describes. In a formal essay, discuss the ways Camus’s philosophy might help you face life with hope and joy in spite
of the obstacles and absurdities you may face. You must complete a prewriting activity prior to the FINAL COPY:
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