Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner and like other slav
e owners a politician he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army that had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the opportunity for distinction. That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time. Meanwhile he did what he could. No service was too humble for him to perform in aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war. 1. What historical event is present in passage 1?
A. American Revolution
B. French Indian War
C. Civil War
D. Industrial Revolution
2. What evidence from Passage 1 supports the historical event you selected in the previous question?
A. "Peyton Farquhar was a well-to-do planter of an old and highly respected Alabama family"
B. "He was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause"
C. "That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in war time."
D. Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with the gallant army."
"He," "him," and "his" are third person singular pronouns, and "they," "them," and "their" are third person plural pronouns. Novels are usually written in third person.
<em>W.B Yeats makes use of the elegiac tone to set the mood of the poem. </em>
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<u>Explanation:</u>
The poem written by Yeats focuses on the loss which imparts some kind of sadness and grief. The writer prepares the reader of the feelings contained in the poem. The loss taken by the reader is in the bittersweetmanner as it also makes him confront with both the beauty and the loss throughout the poem. The loss had started when he first saw the swans. The soreness of the author’s heart is depicted in the lines.
In a 1939 letter, John Steinbeck wrote that his goal for The Grapes of Wrath was “to rip a reader's nerves to rags.” Through the novel, Steinbeck wanted readers to experience the life of the Dust Bowl migrants with whom he had spent time.
