The line “As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead,” in the above excerpt from act V scene 3 of Shakespeare's Macbeth tell the audience that Macbeth realizes his mistake and regrets his ambition.
Act V of the play Macbeth is the concluding act of the play which highlights the end of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, and their evil deeds. When Macbeth gets to know about Lady Macbeth’s unnatural death, he becomes numb. In great shock, he gives a speech in which he exerts about the uncertainty and unpredictability of death. Later he is informed by a servant that the Birnam Wood is moving towards Dunsinane. In despair, he shouts out loud at the servant but realizes that the prophecy of the witches is coming true. He realizes that in the run of attaining the kingdom he had fallen short of love, friends, and honor. His greed has left him alone. Though he thinks about the losses he had faced in his life, still he steps to the conclusion that he’ll fight until his death.
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Read the excerpt from “Speaking Arabic.”
At a neighborhood fair in Texas, somewhere between the German Oom-pah Sausage Stand and the Mexican Gorditas booth, I overheard a young man say to his friend, “I wish I had a heritage. Sometimes I feel—so lonely for one.” And the tall American trees were dangling their thick branches right down over his head.
Which best explains how Nye’s text structure helps establish her voice in the excerpt?
a) Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
b) Nye compares her experience to a stranger’s experience to express her ideas about the importance of heritage.
c) Nye lists food booths at a neighborhood fair in Texas to make a statement about diverse foods in America.
d) Nye uses a cause-and-effect format to show how heritage can limit a person’s cultural diversity.
Answer:
a) Nye relates a story about something she heard to emphasize the point she wants to make about heritage.
Explanation:
In "Speaking Arabic", author Naomi Shihab Nye develops the theme of heritage. As we can see, she mentions something she overheard a man say to do so. This American man does not understand and, for that reason, does not value his own heritage. He says he wishes he had a heritage, not being able to look around and realize how diverse his country is. She goes ahead to mention the trees to show how heritage is all around him, how he would certainly be able to see it if he truly wanted to.
In his poem, Bob Kaufman addresses many social problems of poor. He uses the first-person approach making the the problems personal for himself and his readers. Therefore, the poem is genuine. By employing the lines of "extravagant moments of shock of unrehearsed curiosity," Kaufman points to the injustice in society. Kaufman makes these injustices targets for himself. It looks like he calls for a revolution, making his readers reject social design made for the poor:
I sing a mad raga, I sing a mad raga, a glad raga for the ringing bell I sing.
A man fishing with old clothes line, shouting bass drum
Kaufman uses anaphora which is a type of repetition. The word raga is repeated when introducing each idea or thought.
Raga of lip, raga of brass, raga of ultimate come with yesterday, raga of a parched tongue-walked lip, raga of yellow, raga of mellow, raga of new, raga of old, raga of blue, raga of gold, raga of air spinning into itself
Each idea in this line emphasized by the term raga in a free form. The repetition marks the rhyme, as well meaning "the musical form of yellow," an abstract musical concept.
The correct answer is A.
