Reading selections: "When You Are Old" and "The Match"
8 Which statement best compares the time frames of
both selections?
A "When You Are Old" takes place over the
course of an imaginary two days in the past,
"The Match" mainly takes place over the
course of a week in the past.
B "When You Are Old" takes place during an
imagined moment in the future, The Match"
mainly takes place during a remembered event
in the past.
C Both selections take place over the course of a
single year.
D Both selections take place in the present but
look to the future.

Which type of characterization is used in the excerpt to reveal claire’s character traits? indirect, direct, both or neither

How do "the jilting of granny weatherall" and "the love somg of j alfred prufrock" differ?

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.