Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison is summarized.

These inquiries are achieved: 1. What does the narrator's grandfather mean by his statement: "Our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction."? 2. Ellison makes numerous references to the circus. List some of those references and speculate as to why he continually returned to this metaphor.

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Seamus Heaney's poem is assessed.

"Mid-Term Break" by Seamus Heaney is assessed: I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At ten o'clock our neighbours drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying - He had always taken funerals in his stride - And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand And tell me they were 'sorry for my trouble' Whispers informed strangers that I was the eldest, Away at school, as my mother held my hand In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs. At ten o'clock the ambulance arrived... click for more

WHICH ONE HAS CORRECT SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT

1)WHEN HE GETS EXCITED HE TALK HIS HEAD OFF. 2)THEY TALK EVERYTHING OVER BEFORE THEY MAKE A DECISION. 3)TANYA ND JULIE TALKS ON THE PHONE EVERY DAY. 4)WE TALKS BEFORE HE DOES ANYTHING IMPORTANT.

ADVERB ERROR

1) HE APPEARS CALM. 2) I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE. 3) SHE SPEAKS LOGICALLY. 4) I HOPE YOU'LL TREAT HIM FAIR. IS 4) THE ANSWER - FAIRLY