RISE ELA Grade 10 Practice Questions - RISE English Language Arts - Grade 10 Exam

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Excerpt from 'The Weaving of Ithaca' For three long years, Penelope sat at her loom in the great hall. By daylight, she wove a shroud for noble Laertes, her shuttle dancing across the taut warp threads. The suitors drank her wine and boasted of their wealth, insisting that Odysseus was dead and that she must choose a new husband. But when darkness fell over the palace, Penelope held a single oil lamp in her hand and quietly unraveled the day's work thread by thread, holding time itself at bay. What motif is developed through Penelope's actions in this excerpt?

Weaving and unraveling as a symbol of tactical patience, intelligence, and fidelity. Daylight and darkness as a symbol of economic decline and palace decay. Wine and feasting as a symbol of generous royal hospitality. The oil lamp as a symbol of dangerous secrecy and betrayal against her family.

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Weaving and unraveling as a symbol of tactical patience, intelligence, and fidelity.

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