Activity 12
Reading Strategy: Break Down Long Sentences
When an author writes a long, complicated sentence, you can clarify the meaning by
breaking it down into its logical parts. Look especially for the subject and predicate at its
core.
Poe's sentence: A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid, and luminous
beyond comparison; lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful
curve; a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar
formations; a finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a wants subject
moral energy; hair of a more than weblike softness and tenuity--these features, with an
inordinate expansion above the region of the temple, made up altogether a countenance
not easily to be forgotten.
2 predicate
Core sentence: These features made up a countenance not easily forgotten.
Own words: He had a memorable face.
DIRECTIONS: Underline the core of the following sentences from The Fall of the House
of Usher." Then restate the core in your own words.
1. During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of that year,
when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on
horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as
the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.
2. I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled
luster by the dwelling, and gazed down-but with a shudder even more thrilling than
before-upon the remodeled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly
tree stems, and the vacant and eyelike windows.
3. He admitted, however, although with hesitation, that much of the peculiar gloom
which thus afflicted him could be traced to a more natural and far more palpable
origin-to the severe and long-continued illness-indeed to the evidently approaching
dissolution of a tenderly beloved sister, his sole companion for long years, his last and
only relative on earth.
Student Activity Workbook-1/31/17
English 11A CP-HS1085 - Unic 2
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with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.

it would be b.) because if you process of elimination and when mr.white pulls the monkey it’s the action of the whole story

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answer: as i read, i grin

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