Weegy: The Latin prefix mal- means:
- bad or badly; wrong or wrongly; imperfect or defective
User: Using your knowledge of the Latin prefix mal-, which of these would you most likely describe as malevolence?
A. accidental injury
B. intentional harm
C. beneficial action
D. kind behavior
Weegy: Intentional harm most likely described as malevolence.
User: Which clause in this sentence is used as an adjective?
When Beowulf arrived, the Danes welcomed him, for they desperately needed someone who could stop Grendel.
A. When Beowulf arrived
B. the Danes welcomed him
C. they desperately needed someone
D. who could stop Grendel
Weegy: The clause that is used as an adjective is: D. who could stop Grendel - it modifies 'someone'.
User: Which sentence does not contain a misplaced or dangling modifier?
A. Written in heroic couplets, a trivial matter is portrayed as a great catastrophe in Pope’s witty poem.
B. Pope’s witty poem is about a trivial matter portrayed as a great catastrophe written in heroic couplets.
C. Portrayed as a great catastrophe, Pope’s witty poem centers on a trivial matter and is written in heroic couplets.
D. Written in heroic couplets, Pope’s witty poem portrays a trivial matter as a great catastrophe.
Weegy: Answer is D. Written in heroic couplets, Pope s witty poem portrays a trivial matter as a great
catastrophe.
User: Read this passage from Donne’s “Meditation 17.” Then, answer the question that follows.
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell* tolls; it tolls for thee.
*bell: here, the death knell, or church bell that tolls for a death
Which sentence best states the belief Donne expresses in this ...
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