Guided Questions- Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story From China Chinese pages 335-343 1. Lines 1–11: What is the setting of this story? How do you know?

2. Lines 1–11: Which two characters are introduced here? What similarities do

these characters have to two of the main characters in other versions of the
Cinderella story that you know?

3. Lines 12–20: What evidence of the conflict, or struggle, faced by Yeh-Shen is in these lines?
4. Lines 12–20: What example of an unrealistic or fantastic element is in these lines?
5. Lines 54–57: What words and phrases in these lines foreshadow possible future events?

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The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.

What phrase from "speech after being convicted of voting" most engages the audience's sense of pathos, or their emotions?

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)