Question

1.) Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence.

Father fixed the broken window ___________.
a. pane
b. pain

2.) Literary Focus: Dramatic Monologue
A dramatic monologue is a poem in which a speaker other than the poet addresses __________.
a. an imagined theater audience
c. a listener who speaks in reply
b. the poet
d. a listener who does not speak

3.) Correctly identify the interrupter in the sentence below.
The man who liked to joke around with the Middletons was Fat Driscoll.
a. The man
b. who liked to joke around wtih the Middletons
c. with the Middletons
d. no interruptor

Answer 1

Answers:
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1) [A]: "pane" .
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2) [D]: "a listener who does not speak" .
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3) [B]: "who liked to joke around with the Middletons" .
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Answer 2

1) Father fixed the broken window Pane (a)

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning. The term derives from the greek "homo"-"same" and "phone"-"voice". In the question above we have Pane that means crystal and pain that means suffering. The words may be spelled the same and are also homographs and homonyms or differently as the options mentioned and are also known as heterographs.

2) A dramatic monologue is a poem in wich a speaker other than the poet addresses a listener who speaks in reply (c).

Dramatic monologues are written in the form of a speech of an individual character. According to the literary critic M.H. Abrams there are three main features in a dramatic monologue:

1. The speaker is not the poet and delivers the speech in a critical moment of the play.
2. This person addresses and interacts with oner or more people but we, as the audience, don´t hear the replies. We must assume what the listener said only from clues in the discourse of the single speaker.
3. The main sense of the poet´s choice is to reveal to the audience the speaker´s character and way of thinking in a manner that catch the attention.

3) In the sentence: "The man who liked to joke around with the Middletons was Fat Driscoll." There are no interrupter (d).

An interrupter is a word, phrase, or clause that signicantly breaks the flow of a sentence. Generally interrupters are separated from the rest of the sentence by commas, one in front and one in behind.

An interrupter is something that you can remove from the sentence and the meaning will not be alter. In the question above any removal of a clause will change the meaning of the sentence.

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