Read the excerpt from “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” Scotty climbed onto the platform and sat on the stool. Without a glance at the audience or a word of introduction, he began to play “I Am a Little Lamb,” a tune whose childishness was belied by the twanging filigree of his slide guitar, its gushy metallic complexity. He followed that with “Goats Like Oats” and “A Little Tree Is Just Like Me.” The amplification was fine and powerful enough to eclipse the chopper throb and deliver the sound even to the distant reaches of the crowd, where it disappeared between buildings. Alex listened in a sort of cringe, expecting a roar of rejection from these thousands he’d managed secretly to assemble, whose goodwill had already been taxed by the long wait. But it didn’t happen; the pointers, who already knew these songs, clapped and screeched their approval, and the adults seemed intrigued, attuned to double meanings and hidden layers, which were easy to find. Which of the following choices best describes the structure used in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from “A Visit from the Goon Squad.” Standing next to Bennie, who watched Scotty while frenetically working his handset, Alex felt what was happening around him as if it had already happened and he were looking back. He wished he could be with Rebecca and Cara-Ann, first dully, then acutely—with pain. His handset had no trouble locating his wife’s handset, but it took many minutes of scanning that section of the crowd with his zoom to actually spot her. What is happening in this excerpt?
Which of the following is the most effective thesis statement?
Beat poets most likely use free verse
Look at the advertisement. Open image in full-screen view Which persuasive media technique is used in this advertisement?
Which of the following slogans best exemplifies the bandwagon technique?
Use the following definitions to answer the question. emit: 1. (verb) to produce, to voice omit: 1. (verb) to leave something out, to forget Which sentence contains correct word usage?
Read the sentence. We wrote in our journals for twenty minutes each day. Which type of phrase or clause is underlined in the sentence?
Read the sentence. The stimulus in the experiment caused the plants to grow. Which type of phrase or clause is underlined in the sentence?
Read the sentence. The animals' habitat was in the direct path of the forest fire. Which type of phrase or clause is underlined in the sentence?
Look at the advertisement. Open image in full-screen view Which persuasive media technique is used in this advertisement?
Read this excerpt from Diane Di Prima’s poem "Buddhist New Year Song." I could see the planet from which we had come I could not remember (then) what our purpose was but remembered the name Mahakala, in the dawn in the dawn confronted Shiva, the cold light revealed the “mindborn” worlds What is the purpose of these allusions in this excerpt?
How does Thomas Wolfe organize the text "Look Homeward, Angel"?
Read this excerpt from "Look Homeward, Angel." And whatever he touched in that rich fortress of his soul sprang into golden life: as the years passed, the fruit trees—the peach, the plum, the cherry, the apple—grew great and bent beneath their clusters. His grape vines thickened into brawny ropes of brown and coiled down the high wire fences of his lot, and hung in a dense fabric, upon his trellises, roping his domain twice around. They climbed the porch end of the house and framed the upper windows in thick bowers. And the flowers grew in rioting glory in his yard—the velvet-leaved nasturtium, slashed with a hundred tawny dyes, the rose, the snowball, the redcupped tulip, and the lily. The author uses sensory details in this excerpt to create images of
Read this excerpt from the text “Look Homeward, Angel.” With his great hands he had laid the foundations, burrowed out deep musty cellars in the earth, and sheeted the tall sides over with smooth trowellings of warm brown plaster. He had very little money, but his strange house grew to the rich modelling of his fantasy: when he had finished he had something which leaned to the slope of his narrow uphill yard, something with a high embracing porch in front, and warm rooms where one stepped up and down to the tackings of his whim. Which best describes the author’s use of style in this excerpt?
How does the allusion in this excerpt reinforce the meaning of the poem?
Which statement best supports the claim that “The Railroad Earth” contains stylistic features representative of the Beat movement?
In this excerpt, the poet uses repetition to reinforce the idea that
Based on the style and language used in “Homework,” Alan Ginsberg would most likely agree that the writing of this text
Which of these best explains the paradox presented in the poem "Homework"?
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