Question 1
Part A
What can be inferred about the speaker's feelings toward his foe?
Answer:
The speaker keeps his anger inside until it erupts into violence.
Question 2
Part B
Which lines from the poem best support the answer in Part A?
Answer:
I was angry with my foe: / I told it not, my wrath did grow."
Examples (both in chapter 1): Infinitely small sound and dry rain
<span>Are you speaking of Grandma Ling by Amy Ling? If so, then think about it. The poem starts off with her in the US. In the second stanza, it speaks of her going to visit her grandmother in Taiwan. In the end of the of the Second stanza it described the speaker to look much like her grandmother. In the last stanza, the speaker tells you her grandmother speaks in a language she does not know, leading you to believe that her grandmother cant speak English. Knowing this information, what is the most reasonable conclusion you can make from it?</span>
The lines that describe recent events are the following: "<span>Seven captains at our seven gates Thundered; for each a champion waits, Each left behind his armor bright, Trophy for Zeus who turns the fight; Save two alone, that ill-starred pair One mother to one father bare, Who lance in rest, one 'gainst the other Drave, and both perished, brother slain by brother."
Here, the chorus recounts the recent war of Argive and Thebes armies, led by two brothers, Polyneices and Eteocles, who killed each other. This event if the foreground of the plot. The chorus' story serves at least two purposes: reminding the audience of a well-known occurrence (thus providing a context for the plot), and a foreshadowing of another tragedy that is about to happen.</span>
