Which of the following sentences contains an oxymoron? a. mr. griffins speech before the assembly of 10th graders was short and to the point. b. after everyone flew out of the auditorium, gabe and brian were left alone together c. productions by the drama class were beginning that autumn after midterm exams. d. students filed quickly into the auditorium, hoping to find out about the new schedule

Which sentence would not be appropriate for an essay or formal speech? a) most of the titles of faulkner's novels are references to the bible or to the works of william shakespeare. eliminate b) some critics believe that faulkner's novel the sound and the fury is the best novel of his entire career. c) the novels of william faulkner are way too hard to read, yo, filled with all these frustrating changing narrators! d) william faulkner traveled all the way from his home state of mississippi to sweden in order to make his nobel prize acceptance speech.

The duke and the dauphin lie, cheat, and steal for the purposes of their own survival. answers: •true •false

What does the candle symbolize in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich? “when i am not, what will there be? there will be nothing. then where shall i be when i am no more? can this be dying? no, i don’t want to! ” he jumped up and tried to light the candle, felt for it with trembling hands, dropped candle and candlestick on the floor, and fell back on his pillow. a. ivan ilyich’s shallow lifestyle b. ivan ilyich’s troubled conscience c. ivan ilyich’s murky past d. ivan ilyich’s approaching death