The words and actions of Lemon Brown in "The Treasure of Lemon Brown” makes him seem like?
Read the sentence.Although it was raining slightly outside, Tamanika decided to go for a walk.
Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.”Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it upIn the field, a blue sky above themTipped with cirrus.And there I was,Just off the plane and plopped in the middleOf Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game,Unnatural and without any moves,My notions of baseball and AmericaGrowing fuzzier each time I whiffed.The first-person point of view in this excerpt helps readers understand
Read this paragraph.Before the Rosetta Stone was discovered in 1799, no one knew how to read Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. Its meaning had been lost for almost 1400 years. But countless visitors to Egypt over the centuries had tried to decipher the mysterious symbols. This is the story of their attempts, and of how the Rosetta Stone finally enabled scholars to unlock the Egyptian past.Which sentence states a position that the author plans to prove in The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone?
Read the excerpt from "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins.I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way outWhich statement best interprets the metaphor in these lines?
Read this question from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes.”If a child on the street who has nothing is willing to share, why are we who have everything still so greedy?
Read this excerpt from "Birdfoot's Grampa.”But, leathery hands fullof wet brown life,knee deep in the summerroadside grass,he just smiled and saidthey have places to go totoo."They have places to go to” is an example of
Read the passage from "Names/Nombres" by Julia Alvarez.By the time I was in high school, I was a popular kid, and it showed in my name. Friends called me Jules or Hey Jude, and once a group of troublemaking friends my mother forbade me to hang out with called me Alcatraz. I was Hoo-lee-tah only to Mami and Papi and uncles and aunts who came over to eat sancocho on Sunday afternoons – old world folk whom I would just as soon go back to where they came from and leave me to pursue whatever mischief I wanted to in America. JUDY ALCATRAZ, the name on the "Wanted" poster would read. Who would ever trace her to me?
Read the sentence.I love reading travel books because they include beautiful pictures of faraway places and they motivate me to explore the world.
Read the sentence.We asked Ahmad to notify us if he was not coming through e-mail.Which is the best revision of this sentence?
The first-person point of view in "How I Learned English” helps readers
Read the sentence.Although rabbits are fast, bears are powerful, which I think better represents our school’s baseball and football teams.
Which excerpt from “The Girl Who Silenced the World for Five Minutes” creates a shameful tone?
Which blog is most likely written to persuade readers?
Based on the repetition in “Twelfth Song of Thunder,” the voice
Which line from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone is a clue that helps show the author’s attitude toward Thomas Young?
Read this excerpt from “What I Hope to Leave Behind.”For a number of years it took so much vitality to keep the home going, and that home represented so many different kinds of activities, that none of us had any urge to go outside of this sphere. Gradually in every civilization there comes a time when work of the household is done by servants, either human or mechanical.When the care of the children ceases to be entirely in one person's hands, then in the past, as in the present, women have turned to other things. Some have changed the map of the world, some of them have influenced literature, some have inspired music.
Read this excerpt from The Outsiders.Or I could have gotten one of the gang to come along, one of the four boys Darry and Soda and I have grown up with and consider family. We’re almost as close as brothers; when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours you get to know each other real well.
Read the excerpt from "Aunty Misery.”Time passed and both Aunty Misery and her tree grew bent and gnarled with age. One day another traveler stopped at her door. This one looked untrustworthy to her, so before letting him into her home the old woman asked him what he was doing in her village. He answered her in a voice that was dry and hoarse, as if he had swallowed a desert. "I am Death, and I have come to take you with me."Which element of an allegory is found in this excerpt?
Read this excerpt from The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone. After graduating in 1807 from the upper school in Grenoble, Champollion went to Paris. There he studied with Sylvestre de Sacy, the scholar who had attempted to decipher the writings on the Rosetta Stone a few years earlier.Based on this excerpt, what is the best prediction that can be made?
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