English 8 - Quiz NAME: - GRADE & SECTION: - SCORE: - I.ELEMENTS OF A NARRATIVE: Identify The Following
English 8 - Quiz NAME: - GRADE & SECTION: - SCORE: - I.ELEMENTS OF A NARRATIVE: Identify The Following
English 8 - Quiz NAME: - GRADE & SECTION: - SCORE: - I.ELEMENTS OF A NARRATIVE: Identify The Following
_____ Ko-Ngai leaped into the white flood of metal; and the lava of the furnace roared to
receive her, and spattered monstrous flakes of flames to the roof, and burst over the verge of
the earthen crater, and cast up a whirling mountain of many coloured fires, and subsided
quakingly, with lightning’s and with thunder and with mutterings.
_____ Nearly 500 years ago the Celestially August, the son of Heaven, Yong-Lo, of the
“Illustrious” or Ming dynasty, commanded the worthy official, Kouan-Yu that he should have a
bell made of such size that the sound thereof might be heard for 100 hundred li.
_____ Then the father of Ko-Ngai. Wild with his grief, would have leaped in after her; but that
strong men held him back and kept firm grasp upon him until he had fainted away, and they
could bear him like one did to his home.
_____ A second time the bell has cast, and the result was even worse. Still the metals
obstinately refused to blend one with the other; cracked and fissured, and the lips of it were
slogged and split asunder.
_____ When the metal had become cool, it was found that the bell was beautiful to look upon
and perfect in form, and wonderful in colour above all other bells.