GEORGE ELLIOT

Practice Test 2 #12-201B

Questions # 12

#12 – E) a professional writer

POE; no reason to believe any of the others, so this is acceptable

Question #17

#17 – B) suffered from her independence and knowledge

Knowledge = a double burden

Burden lead to Eliot’s death

Question #18

#18 – D) relative clauses

POERelative clauses –give

essential information about someone or something – information that we need in order to understand what or who is being referred.; A defining relative clause usually comes immediately after the noun it describes.We usually use a relative pronoun (e.g. who, that, which, whose and whom) to introduce a defining relative clause

In the examples, the relative clause is in bold, and the person or thing being referred to is underlined.):

They’re the people who want to buy our house.

Here are some cells which have been affected.

They should give the money to somebody who they think needs the treatment most.

Terms to Know

Apposition - a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent (e.g., my friend Sue ; the first US president, George Washington.

Hyperbole – overstatement or exaggeration

Personification – figurative device in which inanimate objects or concepts are given human qualities

Parallelism - parallel structure or parallel construction, is a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure. clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

Terms to Know

Cloistered – secluded from the world; sheltered

Mitigate - to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.

Despondent - feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom:

Laurel - a small European evergreen tree