“she stood at the stage door; she wanted to act, she said. men laughed in her face. the manager—a fat, loose-lipped man—guffawed. he bellowed something about poodles dancing and women acting—no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress.”—what comparison was virginia woolf making here, based on the time period in which she lived? a. she was showing how men treated women terribly from one era to the next. b. women have been ridiculed in every time period. c. she was comparing male and female acting roles in the victorian era. d. women during shakespeare’s time period had

Choose one group member who participated in your discussion. in 100-150 words, evaluate the effectiveness of their main argument and supporting evidence. using your notes, explain whether or not their claims were developed well, what evidence they used to support their claim, and how well they responded to the prompt. is there anything they could have done to be more effective? if so, what was it?

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why are the royals in the woods? a. they are hunting. c. they are drunk. b. they are celebrating the wedding. d. they are lost.

Marianne moore’s “poetry” is written in defense of poetry. in the excerpts, which three lines or phrases reflect moore’s opinion of what good poetry should be? . . to discriminate against "business documents and school-books"; all these phenomena are important. one must make a distinction however: when dragged into prominence by half poets, the result is not poetry, nor till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination" —above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," shall we have it. in the meantime, if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in poetry.