Analyzing Historical and cultural Settings. Mastery Test 5
Select all the correct answers.
Which two sentences best describe the role of the setting in the story?
The setting helps reveal the speaker's joyous attitude.
The setting provides an insight into the troubled past of the speaker.
The setting helps add an element of suspense to the story.
The setting helps develop the theme of longing in the story.
from The Professor
by Charlotte Bronte
This is Belgium, reader. Look! Don't call the picture a flat
or a dull one-it was neither flat nor dull to me when I first
beheld it. When I left Ostend on a mild February morning,
and found myself on the road to Brussels, nothing could look
vapid to me. My sense of enjoyment possessed an edge
whetted to the finest, untouched, keen, and exquisite. I was
young: I had good health: pleasure and I had never met: no
indulgence of hers had enervated or sated one faculty of my
nature. Liberty I clasped in my arms for the first time,
and
the influence of her smile and embrace revived my life like
the sun
and the west wind. Yes, at that epoch I felt like a
morning traveler who doubts not that from the hill he is
ascending he shall behold a glorious sunrise, wild
what if the
track be strait, steep, and stony? He sees it not: his eyes are
fixed on that summit flushed already, flushed and gilded,
and having gained it e is certain of the scene beyond. He
knows that the sun will face him, that his chariot is even now
coming over the eastern horizon, and that the herald breeze
he feels on his cheek is opening for the god's career a clear,
vast path of
azure, amidst clouds soft as pearl and warm as
flame. Difficulty and toil were to be my lot, but sustained by
energy, drawn on by hopes as bright as vague, I deemed
such a lot no hardship. I mounted now the hill in shade
there were pebbles, inequalities, briars in my path, but my
eyes were fixed on the crimson peak above; my imagination
was with the refulgent firmament beyond, and I thought
The setting helps develop the theme of freedom in the story.
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