1. The fact that no one dies in the play, discord is repaired, misunderstandings are resolved, and lovers and united in marriage all contribute to the play's classification as a comedy.
2. All literary tragedies share certain characteristics:
Protagonists who are courageous and noble and must face significant internal or external challenges.
A heartbreaking ending that often leads to a catharsis for the audience and gives them hope for mankind.
Answer:
C. The people felt relief at the end of their journey.
Explanation:
In this context, the sentence in quotation marks means that the people who had just endured a long and dangerous trip across the ocean felt relieved that their travels were over and that they were able to stand on solid ground once again. The sentence is, indeed, a simile, in which something, stepping foot on solid ground, is likened to something else, in this case, breathing fresh air.
Observations (what you see that is important for a possible future inference) 1. Heard a siren 2: Smelled smoke
Inferences: Kristens house catches on fire and turns off the fire alarm.
Radio, television, cable television, the internet, dvds
Answer:
B: Tracing a sequence of events resulting in a positive outcome
Explanation:
(AP Classroom) Correct. Writers frequently use certain recognizable approaches to develop and organize the reasoning of their arguments. In the opening lines of the passage, the author employs such a method of development when he traces a sequence of events that he believes have culminated in a positive outcome: the First World War happened; the war provided a cautionary example; world leaders have been trying to prevent another outbreak of war; in the end, they succeed in devising the “greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.” A method of development provides an audience with the means to trace a writer’s reasoning in an argument. In this case, the author’s approach to organizing his argument suggests that he understands recent peace preservation efforts in terms of a temporal chain of events—one in which each event is linked to the next by a causal logic.
