1. "The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom—army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself. a. First person; the author's viewpoint is wry. b. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is affectionate. c. First person; the author's viewpoint is disparaging. d. Third person; the author's viewpoint is disparaging. 2. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto. a. Second person; the author's viewpoint is romantic. b. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is mocking. c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is sentimental. d. Second person; the author's viewpoint is unromantic. 3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head. Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over. a. Limited omniscient; the author's viewpoint is sarcastic. b. Third person omniscient; the author's viewpoint is realistic. c. Second person; the author's point of view is sarcastic. d. First person; the author's point of view is ironic. 4. "Liberalism and Socialism" by Winston Churchill The first indispensable condition of democratic progress must be the maintenance of European peace. War is fatal to Liberalism. Liberalism is the world-wide antagonist of war. We have every reason to congratulate ourselves upon the general aspect of the European situation. The friendship which has grown up between Great Britain and France is a source of profound satisfaction to every serious and thinking man. The first duty of a nation is to make friends with its nearest neighbour. Six years ago France was agitated in the throes of the Dreyfus case, and Great Britain was plunged in the worst and most painful period of the South African war; and both nations—conscious as we are of one another's infirmities—were inclined to express their opinion about the conduct of the other in unmeasured terms, and keen antagonism resulted. a. Omniscient; the author's view point is amused. b. First person; the author's viewpoint is amused. c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is mocking. d. First person; the author's viewpoint is persuasive. 5. Letters of Lord Acton by Lord Acton There is nothing to regret. Your brother has held a conspicuous place in the most wonderful election contest of this century. He has held it in a manner which will never be forgotten in his lifetime, and which will do as much for him as victory; and the picture of the young untried son bursting into sudden popularity and turning men's thoughts from the absorbing exploits of his father adds an affecting domestic feature to that great biography. That meeting at Hawarden, after such a revolution and such a growth, is a thing I cannot think of without emotion. a. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is serious. b. First person; the author's viewpoint is emotional. c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is emotional d. Third person; the author's viewpoint is persuasive.
1. "The Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling
The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under circumstances which prevented either of us finding out whether the other was worthy. I have still to be brother to a Prince, though I once came near to kinship with what might have been a veritable King and was promised the reversion of a Kingdom—army, law-courts, revenue and policy all complete. But, to-day, I greatly fear that my King is dead, and if I want a crown I must go and hunt it for myself.
a. First person; the author's viewpoint is wry.
b. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is affectionate.
c. First person; the author's viewpoint is disparaging.
d. Third person; the author's viewpoint is disparaging.
2. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
If you think, from this prelude, that anything like a romance is preparing for you, reader, you never were more mistaken. Do you anticipate sentiment, and poetry, and reverie? Do you expect passion, and stimulus, and melodrama? Calm your expectations; reduce them to a lowly standard. Something real, cool, and solid lies before you; something unromantic as Monday morning, when all who have work wake with the consciousness that they must rise and betake themselves thereto.
a. Second person; the author's viewpoint is romantic.
b. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is mocking.
c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is sentimental.
d. Second person; the author's viewpoint is unromantic.
3. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
His message perplexed his mind to that degree that he was fain, several times, to take off his hat to scratch his head. Except on the crown, which was raggedly bald, he had stiff, black hair, standing jaggedly all over it, and growing down hill almost to his broad, blunt nose. It was so like Smith's work, so much more like the top of a strongly spiked wall than a head of hair, that the best of players at leap-frog might have declined him, as the most dangerous man in the world to go over.
a. Limited omniscient; the author's viewpoint is sarcastic.
b. Third person omniscient; the author's viewpoint is realistic.
c. Second person; the author's point of view is sarcastic.
d. First person; the author's point of view is ironic.
4. "Liberalism and Socialism" by Winston Churchill
The first indispensable condition of democratic progress must be the maintenance of European peace. War is fatal to Liberalism. Liberalism is the world-wide antagonist of war. We have every reason to congratulate ourselves upon the general aspect of the European situation. The friendship which has grown up between Great Britain and France is a source of profound satisfaction to every serious and thinking man. The first duty of a nation is to make friends with its nearest neighbour. Six years ago France was agitated in the throes of the Dreyfus case, and Great Britain was plunged in the worst and most painful period of the South African war; and both nations—conscious as we are of one another's infirmities—were inclined to express their opinion about the conduct of the other in unmeasured terms, and keen antagonism resulted.
a. Omniscient; the author's view point is amused.
b. First person; the author's viewpoint is amused.
c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is mocking.
d. First person; the author's viewpoint is persuasive.
5. Letters of Lord Acton by Lord Acton
There is nothing to regret. Your brother has held a conspicuous place in the most wonderful election contest of this century. He has held it in a manner which will never be forgotten in his lifetime, and which will do as much for him as victory; and the picture of the young untried son bursting into sudden popularity and turning men's thoughts from the absorbing exploits of his father adds an affecting domestic feature to that great biography. That meeting at Hawarden, after such a revolution and such a growth, is a thing I cannot think of without emotion.
a. Omniscient; the author's viewpoint is serious.
b. First person; the author's viewpoint is emotional.
c. Second person; the author's viewpoint is emotional
d. Third person; the author's viewpoint is persuasive.
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