Which statement describes an example of irony from chapters 22 and 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Read the excerpt from "Mending Wall."We keep the wall between us as we go.To each the boulders that have fallen to each.And some are loaves and some so nearly ballsWe have to use a spell to make them balance:"Stay where you are until our backs are turned!"We wear our fingers rough with handling them.Oh, just another kind of out-door game,One on a side. It comes to little more:There where it is we do not need the wall:He is all pine and I am apple orchard.What does the line “And some are loaves and some so nearly balls” refer to?
Read the sentences. Sentence 1: As I turned onto Bryce Road, I saw the Parkers’ cat crouched under a tree, hissing at something on the ground. Sentence 2: I decided to ride my skateboard to school this morning.Sentence 3: I shooed the cat away and called my older stepbrother, a veterinarian, because he would know just how to help them. Sentence 4: Approaching the cat, I noticed that a nest full of tiny birds was on the ground; it must have fallen from a branch. What is the most logical way to sequence these sentences to create a logical narrative?
Read the excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Masque of the Red Death."[W]hile the vast assembly, as if with one impulse, shrank from the centres of the rooms to the walls, he made his way uninterruptedly, but with the same solemn and measured step which had distinguished him from the first, through the blue chamber to the purple—through the purple to the green—through the green to the orange—through this again to the white—and even thence to the violet, ere a decided movement had been made to arrest him.What is the effect of parallelism in this excerpt?
Read the sentence. When I told the doctor of my sinus pain and nasal pressure, she offered me a decongestant. Based on the prefix, de-, what does the word “decongestant” mean?
Read the excerpt from "What the Black Man Wants."I am for the "immediate, unconditional, and universal" enfranchisement of the black man, in every State in the Union. [Loud applause.] Without this, his liberty is a mockery; without this, you might as well almost retain the old name of slavery for his condition; for in fact, if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slave of society, and holds his liberty as a privilege, not as a right. He is at the mercy of the mob, and has no means of protecting himself.How does the repetition of the phrase “without this” support the paragraph’s argument?
Read the paragraph.[1] Tia and Jackie are partners in science class. [2] They have a big project to complete and are having trouble agreeing on an idea. [3] Jackie would prefer to study geology, but Tia is more interested in human biology. [4] Ultimately, they decides to study fossilization.Which sentence has a subject-verb agreement error?
Read the sentence. Open his chemistry book, Trevor knew he had a long night of studying ahead of him. Which is the best replacement for the underlined word?
In “We Wear the Mask,” how does the poet use irony to reject the romantic notion of idealism?
How did Thoreau’s general opinion of government relate to his imprisonment, as described in "Civil Disobedience"?
An effective argumentative essay must provide evidence because
Read the excerpt from "Civil Disobedience."As they could not reach me, they had resolved to punish my body; just as boys, if they cannot come at some person against whom they have a spite, will abuse his dog. Based on his transcendental beliefs, Thoreau most likely believed that the state
Which excerpt from A Man's World contains a stage direction?
How does Douglass use tone to effectively convey his message in "What the Black Man Wants"?
Read the quotation from "The Author to Her Book"."I cast thee by as one unfit for light,Thy Visage was so irksome in my sight;Yet being mine own, at length affection wouldThy blemishes amend, if so I could"In this excerpt, Bradstreet uses the word Visage to express the idea that
Read the excerpt from a New York Times review written about the play entitled A Man's World.Well, for one thing, as per the caption of Miss Rachel Crothers’s play, that this is a man’s world. But what is isn’t necessarily right, though there are a lot of people who go on believing so. However, as Miss Crothers probably knows as well as any one, this play and many others equally strong and to the point will not change conditions. Which statement best describes this excerpt?
Read the excerpt from A Man's World.FRITZ—Oh—but de talk—de talk—I can't stand it for you. When you go out like dis people don't believe it is for your work. They say you have a lover—they say he writes your books.FRANK—That's very flattering. It means that they think they are too good for a woman to do.Which best describes why this excerpt is ironic?
Read the following scene from A Man's World.FRITZ—But you are a woman. You must not expect people to trust you—too much.FRANK—I’m not going to spend my life explaining.FRITZ—(Sitting at L. of desk.) No—but you—FRANK—Oh, Fritz, don’t. You've been so nice and so comfortable. And now you’re beginning to worry. You see how much better it would have been for both of us if I’d never told you anything about myself and about Kiddie.How would an audio production differ from a stage production of this scene?
Which best describes the main idea of the fourth paragraph, which begins “We dare not to,” in John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address?
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