Question 8 Read the following text, and answer the question that follows.

Wonderful Characters: Memoirs and Anecdotes of Remarkable and Eccentric
Persons of Every Age and Nation. From the text of Henry Wilson and James
Caulfield. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with Sixty-one full-page Engravings of
Extraordinary Persons, 7s.6d.
*** There are so many curious matters discussed in this volume, that any
person who takes it up will not readily lay it down until he has read it
through. The Introduction is almost entirely devoted to a consideration of Pig-
Faced Ladies, and the various stories concerning them.

What is the purpose of the above text?

A:to inform
B:to ridicule
C:to persuade
D:to entertain

steps:

1. do 28-12= 16 girls

2. your ratio is 12: 16

3. your answer is b. 3/4

4. this correct because

12 divided by 4 is 3

16 divided by 4 is 4

5. your answer is 3/4

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.