In the story a Knight's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer Arcite is a Knight who imprisoned and falls in love with a beautiful woman named Emily. After being banished and never being able to see Emily again Arcite disguises himself as one of her servants and quickly becomes a part of Emily's household so he can be close to her once again. This is how Arcite was resourceful.
Prince Edward learns numerous things when he is dressed as the pauper in Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper." He learns that what he thought was freedom is actually poverty and neglect from his family, he learns of the hardships that his citizens face due to the injustices of certain laws and he learns the filthy conditions of the nation's prisons.
Answer: B. He is, for the first time, aware of the world as a bleak and savage place.
Explanation:
Pip heard a terrible voice only after he began to cry, so D is not a correct choice. His parents and brothers had died a long time before the event described in the excerpt (so B would be wrong). Pip was not lost on the marshes (so C would be wrong). The answer would be A.
Here is support in the text:
My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things, seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. At such a time I found out for certain, that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard; and that Philip Pirrip, late of this parish, and also Georgiana wife of the above, were dead and buried; and that Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, Tobias, and Roger, infant children of the aforesaid, were also dead and buried; and that the dark flat wilderness beyond the churchyard, intersected with and mounds and gates, with scattered cattle feeding on it, was the marshes; and that the low leaden line beyond, was the river; and that the distant savage lair from which the wind was rushing, was the sea; and that the small bundle of shivers growing afraid of it all and beginning to cry, was Pip."
Explanation:
There is a number of words or phrases that you could use to help smooth the transition between sentence 1 and sentence 2, and here are some of them: also, in addition, additionally, furthermore, moreover, on top of that, etc. The meaning of the second sentence adds on top of the first one - so any of these transition words would be a good choice.
