Q/A 1. What happened to Ron and Harry while crossing king’s cross to catch Hogwarts
express?
2. What is Mandrake or Mandragora? Write down the characteristics of it?
3. What were pixies? What happened when they were set free from the cage?
4. How was Hogwarts founded? Why was there disagreement between the
founders?
5. What did the students know about the chamber of secrets from Professor Binns?
6. What was Harry’s mysterious past? How did he survive from Voldemort’s
curse?
7. Why did Dobby come to meet Harry at the Dursleys house?
8. What was written on the warning letter of Harry from the Ministry of Magic?

The greatest gift the sumerians gave the world was the invention of writing. the sumerians were wealthy people. they needed some way to keep track of what they owned. they began drawing pictures. they used a reed as a pen. they drew on soft pieces of clay. the soft clay was then dried in the sun. the tablet became a permanent record. later, the sumerian drawings changed into wedge-shaped symbols. this kind of writing is called cuneiform. by putting symbols together, the sumerians could write entire sentences.

Read these excerpts. lincoln's "gettysburg address." it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. whitman's "o captain! my captain! ". exult, o shores, and ring, o bells! but i, with mournful tread, walk the deck my captain lies, fallen cold and dead. which rhetorical appeal do both excerpts use? logos: the use of logic to convince the audience pathos: the use of emotional appeals to affect the audience’s feelings brevity: writing or speaking that is short, brief, and to the point ethos: the use of authority to persuade the audience to act the right way

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. …the leaves dead are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (shelley's "ode to the west wind," stanza 1, lines 2-3) which of the following literary techniques are present in this excerpt? select all that apply. enjambment personification sibilance simile