Read the introduction to joel’s personal narrative, “the jazz band.” i for the school jazz band my freshman year, my sophomore year, and my junior year. i didn’t make it until i was a senior. that’s four tryouts! i four nerve-racking tryouts, but it was worth it. fill in the blanks in order. audition . . endured audition . . endure auditioned . . endure auditioned . . endured

The first blank would be endured audition, and the second blank would be endured.

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The blanks can be properly filled in as we can see below:

"I auditioned for the school jazz band my freshman year, my sophomore year, and my junior year. I didn’t make it until I was a senior. That’s four tryouts! I endured four nerve-racking tryouts, but it was worth it."

The first blank can be filled in with "auditioned" both for semantic and syntactic reasons. There are some time markers (my freshman year, my sophomore year, and my junior year), which means we are dealing with Simple Past Tense (definite time in the past), and no auxiliary (such as have or did) are required to make the sentence correct. "Audition" is a regular verb, so all it takes is adding the suffix "ed" to it.

As for the second blank, "endured" can be used for the same reasons pointed out  above. There are no time markers in the very sentence, but there is previous context plus the use of Simple Past Tense in "it was worth it", which means the speaker is talking about something that happened at a specific time in the past. Therefore, Simple Past is the way to go again.

On one hand, we have the narrator of Death Be Not Proud who is brave when faced with Death. He is trying to diminish its influence by showing that he is not afraid because it can't do much to him - once he dies, he will transcend life and continue existing somewhere else, and then Death won't have any power over him - "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."

On the other hand, we have Ivan Ilyich from The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Here, we have quite the opposite situation. We can see that Ivan is terribly afraid of dying and that he is trying to deny the fact that death is near. He doesn't want to die, he isn't ready for that, and he is scared to death. He is not sure if there is anything beyond death, whereas the first speaker is quite certain death is not the end. "When I am not, what will there be? There will be nothing. Then where shall I be when I am no more? Can this be dying? No, I don't want to!"