Read the two passages from a raisin in the sun.
which phrases from the passages best support the theme
that racism can be subtle? select three options.
passage 1:
"a common background"
"their own communities."
"some elements"
"all the energy of the dead
"you had a caller"

[lindner: ] at the moment the overwhelming majority of our
people out there feel that people get along better, take more
of a common interest in the life of the community, when they
share a common background. i want you to believe me
when i tell you that race prejudice simply doesn't enter into it.
it is a matter of the people of clybourne park believing,
rightly or wrongly, as i say, that for the happiness of all
concerned that our negro families are happier when they live
in their own communities.
beneatha (with a grand and bitter gesture): this, friends,
is the welcoming committee!
passage 2:
lindner (looking around at the hostile faces and reaching
and assembling his hat and briefcase): well don't

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.

What else do you think experts can learn from studying the language of written work? what do you think is the value of studying the language of william shakespeare whose writing is over hundreds of years old?

What makes the literal, word-for-word translation of the metamorphosis hard to read?