TASK 4 MYSTERY WORDS

1. INSPIRATION A. something that brings

on creative activity
B. motivation
2. LYRE A. a small stringed
musical instrument
B. similar to a harp
3. ENTRANCED A. to put somebody into
a trance
B. charmed
 TASK 4 MYSTERY WORDS

4. CONDEMNED A. to express an
unfavorable or adverse
judgment

B. doomed
5. SUMMONED A. sent for
B. called forth
The author of more
than 25 books for
children, Alice Low
was born in New York
City in 1926. She
graduated from Smith
College in 1947. Low
published her first
works for children
while raising her own
three kids,
and went on to
combine writing with
jobs producing
educational filmstrips,
teaching creative
writing, and doing
editing and editorial
consulting. She has
also volunteered at
the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
She is the author of
Orpheus, a myth.
Perhaps best-known
for her amusing
fiction for young
children — including the
popular The Witch Who Was Afraid
of Witches, which she has since
turned into a musical — Low has
also written nonfiction, adapted
myths and legends, and selected
works for anthologies.
Low lives in Briarcliff Manor, New
York, where she enjoys singing and
playing tennis.
 PROCESSING QUESTIONS:
1. What was the greatest strength of
Orpheus?
Answer: his talent in music
What was his weakness?
Answer: Euridyce
2. What effect did Orpheus’s music have on
people and gods? Cite two examples.
Answer: People and gods are
charmed by his music
Answer: Men and women forgot their
cares when gathered around him to listen.
Answer: Hades wept and Persephone’s
heart melted.
3. Why did Orpheus decide to rescue his
wife from the underworld?
Answer: because he longed for Eurydice
so deeply
5. What reasons might the gods have for
allowing Orpheus and Eurydice be
reunited?
Answer: The gods felt the sadness.
6. Explain why the gods gave a condition to
Orpheus and to his bride to return to the
earth.
Answer: to test them
7. What main characteristic of this text
makes it a myth?
Answer: the intervention of gods and
goddesses in the life of mortals.
8. To whom does Orpheus owe his talent?
Answer: Calliope, his mother
Why was he able to win the sympathy of the
gods?
Why was he able to win the sympathy of the
gods?
Answer: because of his music
9. In what situations were the gods willing
to help humans?
Answer: When they are affected by what’s
happening to humans
10. Does the story reveal certain realities
about Greeks?
Answer: Yes
11. What does the story reveal about the
concept of gods in Greek mythodology?
Answer: Gods are helpful.
Answer: Gods punish those who do not
obey them.
 PROCESSING QUESTIONS:

1. How do the elements help you

understand the flow of the story?
2. What is the theme of the story?
Answer: Trust
Love conquers all.
Acceptance
3. In what way do the elements contribute
to your understanding of the selection’s
overall theme?
Tone is the attitude of the writer.

Mood is the feelings of the writer.

Purpose is the reason of the writer. .

Technique is the style of the writer..
The tone of the story of Orpheus is
serious because it aims to deliver the
message of acceptance seriously to
the readers that they may
understand that some things even if
how hard we try, if it's not meant to
be, it's not gonna be meant to be.
The mood is tragic or sad because
after all the efforts that Orpheus
exerted, he still failed to get back his
wife.
The purpose of the story is probably to
remind everyone that sometimes,
the best solution is to accept that
some things are meant to be gone.
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The technique used in the story is
simple narration in a way that it can
be understood by readers of all
ages.
PASSAGE 1: An excerpt from H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man

THE STRANGER came early in February one winter

day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the
last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it
seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and
carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly
gloved hand. He was wrapped up from head to foot,
and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his
face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled
itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a
white crest to the burden he carried. He staggered
into the Coach and Horses, more dead than alive as it
seemed, and flung his portmanteau down
“A fire,” he cried, “in the name of human charity! A
room and a fire!” He stamped and shook the snow
from off himself in the bar, and followed Mrs. Hall
into her guest parlour to strike his bargain.
And with that much introduction, that and a ready
consent to terms and a couple of coins flung upon
the table, he took up his quarters in the inn.
1. What does the author most likely want to
convey through the use of the phrase
“ready consent to terms and a couple of
coins flung upon the table"?
A. The stranger's lack of manners and
thoughtfulness.
B. The stranger's desire to quickly get to his room.
C. The stranger's greediness in bartering.
D. The stranger's discomfort.
The correct answer is B. The stranger is
desperate for warmth. We know that because he's
covered in snow and asks for human charity,
which we can only assume is because he's cold. So
even though we know he is uncomfortable, the
correct answer is NOT D. The author uses the
words "ready consent," which means "eager or
quickly willing" consent and coins "flung" upon
the table to indicate a hurried pace. Yes, we know
it's because he's uncomfortable, but the phrases
indicate speed.
 PASSAGE 2: An excerpt from Jane Austen's Pride
and Prejudice
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man
in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a
man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this
truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding
families, that he is considered as the rightful property
of some one or other of their daughters.
‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ said his lady to him one day,
‘have you heard that Netherfield Park is leased at
last?’
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
‘But it is,’ returned she; ‘for Mrs. Long has just been
here, and she told me all about it.’
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
‘Do not you want to know who has taken it?’ cried his
wife, impatiently.
‘You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing
it.’
This was invitation enough.
‘Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that
Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune
from the north of England; that he came down on
Monday in a chaise and four to see the place,
and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with
Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession
before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be
in the house by the end of next week.’
‘What is his name?’
‘Bingley.’
‘Is he married or single?’
‘Oh, single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large
fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine
thing for our girls!’
‘How so? How can it affect them?’
‘My dear Mr. Bennet,’ replied his wife, ‘how can you be
so tiresome? You must know that I am thinking of his
marrying one of them.’
‘Is that his design in settling here?’
‘Design? Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very
likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and
therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.’
2. The author's attitude toward mothers
trying to arrange marriages for their
daughters could best be described as:
A. accepting of the notion
B. irritated with the notion
C. astonished by the notion
D. amused by the notion
The correct answer is D. Even if we read
nothing beyond the first line, we'd get the sense
that the author was slightly amused by the
subject matter. The author further makes the
scene amusing by pitting a complacent husband
against his busybody wife. Austen depicts the
mother as meddling, gossiping, and impatient. If
Austen were irritated by the idea, she'd make the
mother more unlikable. If she were astonished by
the idea, then she'd make the husband act aghast
when Mrs. Bennet brings it up. If she were
accepting of the idea, then she probably wouldn't
have written about it in a witty way. Hence,
Choice D is the best bet.
3. What tone is the author most likely
trying to convey with the sentence, "It
is a truth universally acknowledged,
that a single man in possession of a
good fortune must be in want of a
wife."
A. satiric make fun of
B. scornful deep hatred or disapproval
C. reproachful expression of disapproval
D. weary exhausted
The correct answer is A. This speaks to the
tone of the excerpt as a whole. She's sarcastic
about society's notion of marrying young
women off to wealthy men. Her overreaching
statement, "a truth universally
acknowledged" is an example of hyperbole,
which is an exaggerated statement not
meant to be taken literally." And although
she may personally be reproachful or
scornful of the idea, her tone does not
convey it in this satire.
An excerpt from Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher

DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day

in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung
oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing
alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary
tract of country, and at length found myself, as the
shades of evening drew on, within view of the
melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was—
but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of
insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit. I say
insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of
that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment,
with which the mind usually receives even the sternest
natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked
upon the scene before me—upon the mere house,
and the simple landscape features of the domain—
upon the bleak walls—upon the vacant eye-like
windows—upon a few rank sedges—and upon a few
white trunks of decayed trees—with an utter
depression of soul which I can compare to no earthly
sensation more properly than to the after-dream of
the reveller upon opium—the bitter lapse into every-
day life—the hideous dropping of the veil.
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the
heart—an unredeemed dreariness of thought which
no goading of the imagination could torture into
aught of the sublime. What was it—I paused to
think—what was it that so unnerved me in the
contemplation of the House of Usher?
PASSAGE 3
4. Which of the following choices provides
the best answer to the author's final
question posed in the text, while
maintaining the tone of the article?
A. It could be that I'd fallen into a nightmare
without knowing it.
B. It had to be the dreariness of the day. Nothing
about the house itself was particularly depressing.
C. The solution defied me. I couldn't get at the heart
of my displeasure.
D. It was a mystery I couldn't solve; nor could I
grapple with the shadowy fancies that crowded
upon me as I pondered.
The correct choice is D. Here, the answer
must closely mirror the language in the text.
The words used by Poe are complicated, as is
his sentence structure. Choice B and D's
sentence structure is too simple and Choice
B's answer is incorrect based on the text.
Choice A seems logical until you place it up
against Choice D, which uses a complex
structure and language similar to that
already in the text.
5. Which emotion is the author most
likely trying to rouse from his reader
after reading this text?
A. hatred
B. terror intense fear
C. apprehension fear
D. depression sadness
The correct choice is C. Although the
character feels depression upon viewing the
house, Poe is trying to make the reader feel
apprehension in the scene. What's going to
come up? If he were trying to make the reader
feel depressed, he would have spoken to
something more personal. And he wasn't
trying to terrify the reader in this scene,
either. He would've used scarier content
instead of relying on the dark, depressing
words and phrases he does. And Choice A is
completely off! Hence, Choice C is the best
answer.