Renaissance+News

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1. The author uses the phrase “It's like looking at baby pictures of a distinguished old relative who is now on life support.” to
 * 1) tell about looking at old photos
 * 2) compare two experiences
 * 3) explain how time consuming some projects are
 * 4) describe how many pictures there are in the collection


 * 1) What best describes the way that the newspapers were designed
 * 2) With the idea that they would be read by more than one person
 * 3) With pictures only for the illiterate readers
 * 4) To give the best news coverage during the 17th century
 * 5) To be used as something different after being read


 * 1) What is the oldest form of news spreading on paper recognized in the article?
 * 2) Newspaper
 * 3) Blog
 * 4) Letter writing
 * 5) Book


 * 1) What best describes the role of the printing press?
 * 2) Pivotal
 * 3) Incremental
 * 4) Experimental
 * 5) Martial


 * 1) Which is an example of an allusion?
 * 2) “In a catalogue essay accompanying the show, curators Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey locate another crucial moment”
 * 3) “The printing press, which appeared in England in 1476, opened up the process, allowing for the production of one-off reports about distant wars and strange apparitions.
 * 4) ” the Defenestration of Prague. This 1618 event (a fact known mainly to historians, contestants on "Jeopardy!" and AP history students for about five minutes before and after the exam) helped launch the Thirty Years' War”
 * 5) “The war was the perfect news event”


 * 1) ” The love-hate relationship with the press was there from the beginning” includes an example of which literary device?
 * 2) Paradox
 * 3) Alliteration
 * 4) Personification
 * 5) Metaphor
 * 6) What is the best meaning of the word //allegory// in the following sentence? “It was an allegory about the inability to distinguish opinion from truth, but the over-productive tree suggests a feeling that is current still: The world is pregnant with too much chatter, too much bloviation, too much ephemera.”
 * 7) Breaking news story
 * 8) Critical analysis to point out a problem
 * 9) Funny or satirical use of literature or past work to point out a problem
 * 10) Front page article


 * 1) Which literary device is used in the following excerpt? “But you can't read Shakespeare without being moved by the sense that the English woke up in the middle of the 16th century and discovered a bright shiny toy called the English Language. And they couldn't stop playing with it.”
 * 2) Personification
 * 3) Metaphor
 * 4) Simile
 * 5) Allusion


 * 1) Which literary device is used in the following excerpt? “Just as the Thirty Years' War midwifed the form, and the Napoleonic wars brought it to new heights (author and critic George Steiner said those wars "literally quickened the pace of felt time"), new turmoil on the horizon may yet breathe life into the old beast.”
 * 2) Personification
 * 3) Allusion
 * 4) Alliteration
 * 5) Simile


 * 1) The purpose of the article can best be described as
 * 2) Comparing newspapers during the Renaissance to today’s news business
 * 3) Show the evolution of news coverage since the Renaisssance
 * 4) Describe Renaissance newspapers
 * 5) Indicate that current changes can be compared to the beginnings of the newspaper business